The Plain Speaker: The Key EssaysISBN: 978-0-631-21057-3
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252 pages
December 1998, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction by Tom Paulin.
Editor's Note.
Editorial Principles.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Plain Speaker. .
2. On the Prose-Style of Poets.
3. On the Conversation of Authors.
4. The Same Subject Continued.
5. On Reason and Imagination.
6. On Application to Study.
7. On the Old Age of Artists.
8. On Envy (A Dialogue).
9. Whether Genius in Conscious of its Powers?.
10. On the Pleasure of Hating.
11. On Egotism.
12. Hot and Cold.
13. On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking.
14. On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke.
15. Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars.
Appendix I: Advertisement to Hazlitt's Table Talk (Paris, 1825).
Appendix II: 'A Half-length': an uncollected Hazlitt portrait.
Appendix III: Reynolds' account of Hazlitt, 28 April 1817.
Index.