Essayists

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Hazlitt.htm
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817)
The Spirit of the Age (1825)



Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lamb_(writer)
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Lamb.htm

Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the Time of Shakespeare (1808)
Essays (1823-33)



Thomas De Quincey (1765-1859)

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/DeQuincey.htm

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821-1856)
Recollection of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (1834-39)