II.
AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.
I._Of Literary Biography and Monuments_.
(_a_) A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns, 1816.
(_b_) Letter to a Friend on Monuments to Literary Men, 1819.
(_c_) Letter to John Peace, Esq., of Bristol, 1844.
These naturally group themselves together.

Of the first (_a_), perhaps it is hardly worth while, and perhaps it is worth while, recalling that WILLIAM HAZLITT, in his Lectures upon the English Poets, attacked WORDSWORTH on this Letter with characteristic insolence and uncritical shallowness and haste.

Under date Feb.

24th, 1818, Mr.H.CRABB ROBINSON thus refers to the thing: 'Heard part of a lecture by HAZLITT at the Surrey Institution.

He was so contemptuous towards WORDSWORTH, speaking of his Letter about Burns, that I lost my temper.