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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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- Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street, London
- 28 August 1859 (aged 74), Putney, London, England
Leigh Hunt. 1784–1859. Benjamin Robert Haydon/Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London. 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 ...
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Oct 19, 1784 - Aug 28, 1859. James Henry Leigh Hunt, 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".
Mar 14, 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. He was also a friend and supporter of the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
But in Leigh Hunt he had one who knew them all–and intimately. Brewer planned to publish a bibliography of his collection in three volumes, My Leigh Hunt Library. However, only the first two were printed: My Leigh Hunt Library: The First Editions (1932) and My Leigh Hunt Library: The Holograph Letters (1933).
Aug 28, 2017 · 27. Leigh Hunt’s monument in Kensal Green Cemetary, London. Seven photographs (black and white) taken from different positions and dated July 8, 1925 on verso. About 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Reproductions available. 28. Desmond Leigh-Hunt with his wife and relatives at Leigh Hunt’s grave in 1954. Color photograph, 4 x 6 inches.
