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Leigh Hunt was an English critic, essayist and poet who co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal. He was a friend and mentor of many Romantic poets, such as Keats, Shelley and Byron, and was imprisoned for attacking the Prince Regent.
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.
Aug 24, 2024 · Leigh Hunt (born October 19, 1784, Southgate, Middlesex, England—died August 28, 1859, Putney, London) was an English essayist, critic, journalist, and poet, who was an editor of influential journals in an age when the periodical was at the height of its power.
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Read poems by James Henry Leigh Hunt, an English critic, essayist, and poet of the Romantic era. Explore his lyrical, witty, and progressive style, and his close friendship with Shelley, Keats, and Hazlitt.
Learn about Leigh Hunt, a versatile and influential writer and editor in the Romantic period. Explore his poems, his journalism, his friendship with Keats and Shelley, and his role in the Cockney School of Poetry.
The Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection at Iowa. The University of Iowa Libraries possesses the most complete Leigh Hunt collection in the world. The core of the collection was originally assembled by Luther Brewer, an Iowa native who owned and operated The Torch Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), Romantic writer, editor, critic and contemporary of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, may be best remembered for being sentenced to prison for two years on charges of libel against the Prince Regent (1813-1815).
