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Thornton Leigh Hunt (10 September 1810 – 25 June 1873) was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Early life [ edit ] Hunt was the son of the writer Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne, née Kent.
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Other articles where Thornton Leigh Hunt is discussed: George Henry Lewes: …1850 Lewes and his friend Thornton Leigh Hunt founded a radical weekly called The Leader, for which he wrote the literary and theatrical features. His Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences (1853) originally appeared as a series of articles in The Leader.
Thornton Leigh Hunt, eldest son of James Leigh Hunt and Marianne Kent, was born in London on 10th September, 1810. When Thornton was two years old his father, the editor of the Examiner, was arrested and charged with libel after he published an article criticizing the Prince Regent. Hunt was found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
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Quick Reference. (1810–73) son of Leigh Hunt; journalist who wrote for the Spectator 1840–60, and other papers. In 1849 he and George Henry Lewes planned a new radical weekly, the Leader (Mar. 1850–Nov. ... From: Hunt, Thornton Leigh in The Oxford Companion to the Brontës ». Subjects: Literature — Literary studies (19th century)
Leigh Hunt, prolific poet, essayist, and journalist, was a central figure of the Romantic movement in England. He produced a large body of poetry in a variety of forms: narrative poems, satires, poetic dramas, odes, epistles, sonnets, short lyrics, and translations from Greek, Roman, Italian, and French poems. His vivid descriptions and lyrical ...
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet . Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead -based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle".
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Jun 2, 2020 · The relations of Leigh Hunt to Byron, Shelley and Keats have been treated in a fragmentary way in various works of biography and criticism, and from many points of view. Yet hitherto there has been no attempt to construct a whole out of the parts. This led Professor Trent to suggest the subject to me about five years ago.
