Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), November 8, 1845, vol. 2, no. 18, p. ???, col. ?

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Wiley A Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. No. 28. The English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. From the Third London Edition, Edited by his Son.

This Volume includes Eight Lectures read at the Surrey Institution in 1818. Their titles are — “On Wit and Humor” — “On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson” — “On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, &c.” — “On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar” — “On the English Novelists” — “On the Works of Hogarth” — and “On the Comic Writers of the Last Century.”