Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Institution

English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, esteemed as one of the greatest, in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London's Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from 'On Poetry in General', through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, and on to 'The Living Poets'.