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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,...
‘The Glove and the Lions‘ by Leigh Hunt describes the dangerous games of love that are played in the royal court of the king, and the consequences of going too far. The poem begins with the speaker describing the event that the royal court, the king included, is attending.
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:
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...
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,...
A poet, critic, and journalist who began publishing in his teens, Leigh Hunt grew up to write for, and edit both the best and worst journals in England in the 19th century.
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.
