Leigh hunt biography summary

Leider, Frida — Leider, Frida. Leider, Emily Wortis Leiden, University of. Leick, Gwendolyn —. Leichter, Kaethe Pick. Leichtentritt, Hugo. Leichoudes, Ioannikios and Sophronios. Leigh Syndrome. Leigh, Augusta — Leigh, Carolyn — Leigh, Carolyn originally, Rosenthal, Carolyn Paula. Leigh, Danni. Leigh, Dorothy Kempe fl. Fox, was also unsuccessful.

In a collected edition of his poems was published by subscription, the list of subscribers including many of his opponents. In the same year was printed for private circulation Christianism , the work afterwards published as The Religion of the Heart. A copy sent to Carlyle secured his friendship, and Hunt went to live next door to him in Cheyne Row in In his circumstances were improved by the successful representation at Covent Garden of his Legend of Florence , a play of considerable merit.

In he wrote introductory notices to the work of R. The pretty narrative poem of The Palfrey was published in He was at times in absolute want, and his distress was aggravated by domestic complications. In he was further benefited by the generosity of Mrs. The fruits of the improved comfort and augmented leisure of these latter years were visible in the production of some charming volumes.

Foremost among these are the companion books, Imagination and Fancy , and Wit and Humour , two volumes of selections from the English poets. In these Leigh Hunt shows himself within a certain range the most refined, appreciative and felicitous of critics. Homer and Milton may be upon the whole beyond his reach, though even here he is great in the detection of minor and unapprehended beauties; with Spenser and the old English dramatists he is perfectly at home, and his subtle and discriminating criticism upon them, as well as upon his own great contemporaries, is continually bringing to light unsuspected beauties.

His companion volume on the pastoral poetry of Sicily, quaintly entitled A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla is almost equally delightful. The Town 2 vols. The Old Court Suburb 2 vols. Dobson, is an anecdotic sketch of Kensington, where he long resided before his final removal to Hammersmith. In he published his Autobiography 3 vols. A Book for a Corner 2 vols.

In his narrative poems, original and translated, were collected under the title of Stories in Verse , with an interesting preface. His great misfortune was that these foibles were for the most part of an undignified sort. The very sincerity of his nature is detrimental to him; the whole man seems to be revealed in everything he ever wrote, and hence the most beautiful productions of his pen appear in a manner tainted by his really very pardonable weaknesses.

Some of these, such as his helplessness in money matters, and his facility in accepting the obligations which he would have delighted to confer, involved him in painful and humiliating embarrassments, which seem to have been aggravated by the mismanagement of those around him. The notoriety of these things has deprived him of much of the honor due to him for his fortitude under the severest calamities, for his unremitting literary industry under the most discouraging circumstances, and for his uncompromising independence as a journalist and an author.

It was his misfortune to be involved in politics, for he was as thorough a man of letters as ever existed, and most of his failings were more or less incidental to that character. But it is not every consummate man of letters of whom it can be unhesitatingly affirmed that he was brave, just and pious. In some respects his literary position is unique.

Few men have effected so much by mere exquisiteness of taste in the absence of high creative power; fewer still, so richly endowed with taste, have so frequently and conspicuously betrayed the want of it; and he was incapable of discovering where familiarity became flippancy. But his poetry possesses a brightness, animation, artistic symmetry and metrical harmony, which lift the author out of the rank of minor poets, particularly when the influence of his example upon his contemporaries is taken into account.

This article is about the 19th-century English poet and essayist. For other uses, see Leigh Hunt disambiguation. Leigh Hunt; portrait by Benjamin Haydon. Southgate , London , England. Putney , London, England. Marianne Kent. Early life [ edit ]. Education [ edit ]. Family [ edit ]. Newspapers [ edit ]. The Examiner [ edit ]. The Reflector [ edit ].

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Leigh hunt biography summary

Poetry [ edit ]. Friendship with Keats and Shelley [ edit ]. Trip to Italy [ edit ]. Return to England [ edit ]. Final years [ edit ]. Depiction by Charles Dickens [ edit ]. Other works [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. Dickens on Leigh Hunt". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April In Lee, Sidney ed. Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 January William Blake.

New York: Dutton. Princeton University Press. ISBN Retrieved 2 December Online Etymological Dictionary. Archived from the original on 16 December Retrieved 15 December Accessed 19 December The Complete Works of William Hazlitt ed. Howe , vol. The Romantic Reviewers, — Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. London: Joseph Appleyard: 2 v.

London: Hunt and Clarke: 1 v. For the rest of the incidents, generally speaking, the praise or blame remains with myself. London: Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. Retrieved 8 December — via Internet Archive. Romanticism Volume 14, Number 3, pp. References [ edit ]. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed.

Cambridge University Press. A Biography. Cobden-Sanderson, Cox, Jeffrey N. London: Frederick Warne, Lulofs, Timothy J. Boston: G. Romanticism and the Purpose of Poetry. S2CID Retrieved 22 December External links [ edit ]. Wikiquote has quotations related to Leigh Hunt. Wikisource has original works by or about: Leigh Hunt. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leigh Hunt.