William Hazlitt: Selected Essays William Hazlitt

Selected works

• An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (1805) – Internet Archive
• Free Thoughts on Public Affairs (1806) – Google Books
• A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus (1807) – Internet Archive
• The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners (with Leigh Hunt; 1817) – Google Books
• Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817) – Wikisource.
• Lectures on the English Poets (1818) – Google Books
• A View of the English Stage (1818) – Google Books
• Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819) – Internet Archive
• Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters (1819) – Wikisource.
• Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1820) – Internet Archive
• Table-Talk (1821–22; "Paris" edition, with somewhat different contents, 1825) – Wikisource.
• Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims (1822) – Google Books
• Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion (1823) – Google Books
• The Spirit of the Age (1825) – Wikisource.
• The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things (1826) – Volume I and Volume II on Google Books
• Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy (1826) – Internet Archive
• The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (four volumes; 1828–1830)

Selected posthumous collections

• Literary Remains. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. London: Saunders and Otley, 1836 – Internet Archive
• Sketches and Essays. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. London, 1839 – Internet Archive
• Criticisms on Art. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. London: C. Templeman, 1844 – Internet Archive
• Winterslow: Essays and Characters. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. London: David Bogue, 1850 – Internet Archive
• The Collected Works of William Hazlitt. 13 vols. Edited by A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, with an introduction by W. E. Glover. London: J. M. Dent, 1902–1906 – Internet Archive
• Selected Essays. Edited by George Sampson. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1917 – Internet Archive
• New Writings by William Hazlitt. Edited by P. P. Howe. London: Martin Secker, 1925 – HathiTrust
• New Writings by William Hazlitt: Second Series. Edited by P. P. Howe. London: Martin Secker, 1927 – HathiTrust
• Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778–1830. Centenary ed. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Nonesuch Press, 1930, OCLC 250868603.
• The Complete Works of William Hazlitt. Centenary ed. 21 vols. Edited by P. P. Howe, after the edition of A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover. London: J. M. Dent, 1931–1934, OCLC 1913989.
• The Hazlitt Sampler: Selections from his Familiar, Literary, and Critical Essays. Edited by Herschel Moreland Sikes. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1961, ASIN B0007DMF94.
• Selected Writings. Edited by Ronald Blythe. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970 [reissued 2009], ISBN 9780199552528.
• The Letters of William Hazlitt. Edited by Herschel Moreland Sikes, assisted by Willard Hallam Bonner and Gerald Lahey. London: Macmillan, 1979, ISBN 9780814749869.
• Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780199552528.
• The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. 9 vols. Edited by Duncan Wu. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1998, ISBN 9781851963690 – WorldCat.
• The Fight, and Other Writings. Edited by Tom Paulin and David Chandler. London: Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 9780140436136.
• Metropolitan Writings. Edited by Gregory Dart. Manchester: Fyfield Books, 2005, ISBN 9781857547580.
• New Writings of William Hazlitt. 2 vols. Edited by Duncan Wu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199207060.
• The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays. Edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Other editors of Hazlitt include Frank Carr (1889), D. Nichol Smith (1901), Jacob Zeitlin (1913), Will David Howe (1913), Arthur Beatty (1919?), Charles Calvert (1925?), A. J. Wyatt (1925), Charles Harold Gray (1926), G. E. Hollingworth (1926), Stanley Williams (1937?), R. W. Jepson (1940), Richard Wilson (1942), Catherine Macdonald Maclean (1949), William Archer and Robert Lowe (1958), John R. Nabholtz (1970), Christopher Salvesen (1972), and R. S. White (1996).