His “occultism” 238 And alleged inconstancy 238 The early _Letters_ 239 The _Specimens_ 240 The Garrick Play Notes 241 Miscellaneous Essays 242 _Elia_ 242 The later _Letters_ 243 Uniqueness of Lamb’s critical style 244 And thought 245 Leigh Hunt: his somewhat inferior position 246 Reasons for it 246 His attitude to Dante 247 Examples from _Imagination and Fancy_ 248 Hazlitt 251 Method of dealing with him 251 His surface and occasional faults: Imperfect knowledge and method 252 Extra-literary prejudice 253 His radical and usual excellence 254 _The English Poets_ 255 The _Comic Writers_ 256 _The Age of Elizabeth_ 257 _Characters of Shakespeare_ 258 _The Plain Speaker_ 259 _The Round Table_, &c. 261 _The Spirit of the Age_ 262 _Sketches and Essays_ 263 _Winterslow_ 263 Hazlitt’s critical virtue 263 In set pieces 264 And universally 265 Blake 266 His critical position and dicta 267 The “Notes on Reynolds” 268 And Wordsworth 268 Commanding position of these 268 Sir Walter Scott commonly undervalued as a critic 270 Injustice of this 271 Campbell: his _Lectures on Poetry_ 272 His _Specimens_ 272 Shelley: his _Defence of Poetry_ 274 Landor 276 His lack of judicial quality 276 In regular Criticism 276