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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.
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.
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.
Leigh Hunt. James Henry Leigh Hunt was born 19 October 1784 in Southgate, Middlesex and died on 28 August 1859 in London. As a writer, Hunt was a jack-of-all-trades, achieving early success as a critic, essayist, journalist, and poet, and establishing himself as an editor of influential journals in an age when the periodical was at the height ...
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,...
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784– 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. Biography . Early life . James Henry Leigh Hunt was born at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States.
Leigh Hunt was a friend of the Lambs; he. opened the pages of his Examiner to William Hazlitt. But today Lamb. and Hazlitt rank higher than Hunt both as essayists and as critics.' Leigh Hunt's later life between his return from Italy and his death in 1859 was too much beset with difficulties to allow him to improve. his reputation.
The Glove and the Lions. By Leigh Hunt. King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking on the court; The nobles filled the benches, and the ladies in their pride, And 'mongst them sat the Count de Lorge, with one for whom he sighed:
The center of a circle that included Keats, Shelley, Hazlitt, Lamb, and others, Hunt edited several radical journals, one of which led to his two-year imprisonment for slandering the Prince Regent. This sonnet expresses the belief he shared with Shelley that orthodox notions of God are idolatrous.
Leigh Hunt was a poet, familiar essayist, critic, political commentator, playwright, and translator. While he wrote well in all these genres and with occasional brilliance in...
