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Tables of Contents for The Plain Speaker
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
18
Tom Paulin
Editor's Note
xxv
5
Editorial Principles
xxx
2
Acknowledgements
xxxii
The Plain Speaker
On the Prose-Style of Poets
1
15
On the Conversation of Authors
16
13
The Same Subject Continued
29
10
On Reason and Imagination
39
14
On Application to Study
53
13
On the Old Age of Artists
66
11
On Envy (A Dialogue)
77
12
Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?
89
13
On the Pleasure of Hating
102
12
On Egotism
114
14
Hot and Cold
128
12
On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking
140
21
On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke
161
17
Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars
178
13
Appendix I: Advertisement to Hazlitt's Table Talk (Paris, 1825)
191
2
Appendix II: `A Half-length': an uncollected Hazlitt portrait
193
5
Appendix III: Reynolds's account of Hazlitt, 28 April 1817
198
2
Index
200