C

ON

THE ENGLISH POETS.

BY WILLIAM HAZLITT.

FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION,

EDITED BY HIS SON.

NEW YORK:
JOHN WILEY, 161 BROADWAY,

AND 13 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

1849.

MRVARI COLLEGE I MALI

FROM
THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

9696

TO

BARRY CORNWALL,

WHOM THE AUTHOR OF THESE LECTURES

ESTEEMED AS A MAN

AND

ADMIRED AS A POET,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.