Twenty-Two Essays of William Hazlitt - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES My First Acquaintance With Poets The first essay in Winterslow, 1839. It appeared originally in The Liberal in 1823, and was an expansion of a letter in The Examiner in 1817. The essay is an account of his first awakening to poetry through his acquaintance with Coleridge and Wordsworth. li 1. W--m. Wem, the "obscure village" mentioned later in the essay. 1, 3. dreaded name of Demogorgon. Paradise Lost, II, 964r-965. 1, 19. proud Salopians. Compare Coriolanus, v, 6, 115-116. A Salopian is an inhabitant of Salop, or Shropshire. 1, 23. High-born Hoel's harp. Gray, The Bard, 1, 28. 2, 5. With Styx. Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 90-91. 2, 13. I owe to Coleridge. See On Reading Old Books, p. 29. 2, 17. Whitchurch. A town about nine miles north of Wem. 2, 21-24. like the fires in the Agamemnon of JEschylus. Lines 281-317 describe how the fire-beacons sent the news of Troy's fall from Mount Ida to Argos. 2,36. // y a des impressions. From Rousseau's Confessions. When he read this book he was living "the happiest years of our life. . . . There were indeed impressions which neither time nor circumstances can efface." -- On the Character of Rousseau, in The Round Table. 3, 4. his text. St. John, vi, 15. S, 6. rose like a steam. Comus, 556. 3, 12. One crying. St. Matthew, iii, 3-4. 5, 24-25. as though he should never be old. Sidney, Arcadia, Bk. I. 3,31. Such were the notes. Pope, Epistle to the Earl of Oxford, 1. 4, 6. Jus Divinum. Divine Law. 4, 7. Like to that sanguine flower. Lycidas, 106. 4, 20. As are the children. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, II, xxiii, "Bright as the children of yon azure sheen." 4, 23-24. A certain tender bloom. Ibidem, I, vii. 4, 26. Murillo and Valesquez. Great Spanish painters, whose dates are 1618-1682 and 1599-1660, respectively. 6, 1...