| 单词 | Leigh Hunt |
| 例句 | Tim said that better was Barbara Leigh Hunt, who didn't even utter the words, and merely mouthed them in a puzzled sort of way, to the audience's delight. Simon Hoggart's week: Nick Clegg strikes a chord as spiritual leader 2012-09-28T23:01:19Z Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt praised his "union of ludicrousness with terror" – as in this blending of apocalyptic vision with pantomime. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z Though he sent it back to Britain, his friend Leigh Hunt felt it could not be safely published, the perpetrators of the massacre having been exonerated. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z One of the five men posing beside The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s office may well be Leigh Hunt, who with his wife, Lizzie, was the owner of both the newspaper and the house. A humble home for a big Seattle dreamer, ca. 1889 2014-04-23T04:00:00Z Auburn leaves and early leaf fall are both signs that trees are stressed and "shutting up shop", says Leigh Hunt, senior horticultural advisor at the Royal Horticultural Society. UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already? 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z This is a question that Leigh Hunt, the great 19th-century English writer, asked himself nearly two centuries ago, and it is as relevant today as it was when Hunt tried to answer it. How to celebrate Christmas amid so much misery: Advice from the 1800s still relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z RHS principal horticultural advisor Leigh Hunt said: "All gardens are important - vegetation provides so many benefits, preventing flooding, providing homes for wildlife, keeping cities cool in summer, insulating homes in winter." Chelsea Flower Show: Queen visits ahead of opening - BBC News 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Critics in the know recognised him immediately as the essayist and editor Leigh Hunt, once the intimate of Shelley and Keats, now aging but indubitably alive. From Scarlett Johansson to Tony Blair to the Queen: the noble tradition of writing real people into novels 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Shelley sent Masque to Leigh Hunt in September 1819 but knew he wouldn't publish it. Shelley's Masque 'is slogan for modern times' 2013-07-13T00:49:16Z The theme recalls a pretty poem by Leigh Hunt: If you become a nun, dear, A friar I will be; In any cell you run, dear, Pray look behind for me. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The case of Leigh Hunt was very different, for he sometimes went to the extreme verge of decorum—quarterly review decorum, that is—and beyond it. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Assuredly, to know James Mill intimately was, if I may thus apply Leigh Hunt's saying, in itself a liberal education. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Leigh Hunt is puzzled to reconcile the shyness of my pretensions with the inveteracy and sturdiness of my principles. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z By Leigh Hunt 400 What becomes of all the clever Children? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z I was in company the other evening where Westmacott, the sculptor, was telling a story of himself and Leigh Hunt. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Leigh Hunt—not to speak of Rossetti!—knew many Jennies, but none of them ever sued him for libel. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The former was founded by William Cobbett, the latter by Leigh Hunt; the one uttering the discontents of the lower class of radicals, the other reflecting the opinions of the higher. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Leigh Hunt’s virtues were charming rather than imposing or brilliant; he had no vices, but very many foibles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, widow of Shelley, had her residence at the White House by the river; Leigh Hunt lived and died in the High Street. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Moore spoke slightingly of Leigh Hunt's Cockney poetry, and Leigh Hunt in reply ridiculed Moore's diminutive figure. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The press was fettered by laws which kept Leigh Hunt imprisoned for two years, on account of an article acknowledging the unpopularity of the Prince Regent. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z I will grieve with them, endure with them, and, if it be necessary, work for them, while I have life.—Your most affectionate friend, Leigh Hunt. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Leigh Hunt’s character as an author was the counterpart of his character as a man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It was to Shelley, from Leigh Hunt, begging him to write and say how he had got home in the bad weather of the previous Monday. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z But Leigh Hunt had been in prison for his political beliefs. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Instead of appearing as the angel in Leigh Hunt's "Abou Ben Adhem" did, who diffused himself in the room like a vision, these peripatetic visitants presented themselves like celestial postmen "knocking at the door." Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Leigh Hunt says you bear up under the shock better than could have been imagined; but appearances are not to be relied on. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z In these Leigh Hunt shows himself within a certain range the most refined, appreciative and felicitous of critics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Shelley goes to London and returns; I go with him; spend the time between Leigh Hunt’s and Godwin’s. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Leigh Hunt wished a great library next his study. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Charles Cowden-Clarke tells of his having ordered Leigh Hunt’s poems entitled “Foliage” to be bound in green, and how the book came home in blue. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Subsequent to this ceremony a painful episode took place between Mary and Leigh Hunt. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The new journal with which Leigh Hunt was connected for thirteen years soon acquired a high reputation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z First among these was Godwin; next, and most frequent, the genial but needy Leigh Hunt, with all his family. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z They show, too—the earlier far more than the later—in certain literary mannerisms the unwholesome influence of Leigh Hunt and his circle. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Leigh Hunt, in his Jar of Honey, chap. vi., gives the story of King Robert of Sicily. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z To communicate its contents to Mary or Jane was more than she could do: in her distress she wrote to Leigh Hunt for help or counsel. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z His acting in the farce which followed Leigh Hunt thought “throughout admirable; quite rich and filled up.” Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Their sympathetic friend, Leigh Hunt, grieved at the tone of her letters and at Shelley’s account of her, tried to convey to her a little kindly advice and encouragement. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z The critics of the time, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, have achieved a permanent place in literature. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z This is an old French story of the time of Francis I. It is familiar in various forms to students of literature, and may be found in Schiller, Leigh Hunt, and St. Foix. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z She did not think, when she wrote to Leigh Hunt the letter which follows, that nearly twenty years more would elapse before the will could take effect. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z This time the audiences were to be in Manchester and Liverpool, where it was hoped that a golden harvest might be reaped for Leigh Hunt, who was at that time in sore straits. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z The intimacy of Thomas Moore and Leigh Hunt continued for some years. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Leigh Hunt, in his 'Indicator,' has a pleasant chapter on the difficulty he encountered in seeking a suitable and fresh title for a collection of his miscellaneous writings. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z His own disposition seems to have been most lovable, and he was apparently a much gayer person than the reader might be led to suppose from the “Portrait of Himself” quoted by Leigh Hunt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Leigh Hunt, indeed, thought his own poetry more than equal to Shelley’s or Byron’s. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The tittle-tattle against Leigh Hunt repeated by Lord Macaulay is, on the face of it, unworthy of notice. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Lord Byron agreed with Hunt and Shelley to start a new periodical, to be called "The Liberal," the profits of which were to go to Leigh Hunt. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Leigh Hunt, in his late autobiography, when speaking of Blanco White, seems to blame all religious speculation, as alike hopeless and useless. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z But Keats in his hospital days knew no Italian, and could only have heard of such a passage in Boiardo through Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Peacock says my poetry is composed of day-dreams and nightmares, and Leigh Hunt does not think it good enough for the Examiner. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Gardeners are now re-assessing what to grow, suggests Leigh Hunt, principal horticultural adviser at the Royal Horticultural Society. How can gardeners cope with the 'drought'? 2011-06-08T08:59:50Z Moore's acquaintance with Leigh Hunt dates from the acting of the "Blue Stocking." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The second belonged to a journalist, critic and poet named Leigh Hunt, whose two-year incarceration in the Surrey County Jail for the crime of criticizing the Prince Regent kicks off Hay's narrative. Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC 2011-05-28T14:18:00Z Nor are the gibes themselves quite unjustified so far as they touch merely the underbred insipidities of Leigh Hunt’s tea-party manner in Rimini. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z We find his communications almost every week in The Examiner, The News, The Leader, Leigh Hunt's Journal, and other periodicals. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z He continued to make friends, including “L. E. L.,” the poetess, Campbell, Leigh Hunt, Jerrold, Disraeli and Thackeray. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z When Keats, full of admiration, imitates Leigh Hunt, he is not very heavily impeded in his search for Keats. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z How different is the story of the glove and King Francis, as treated by Leigh Hunt, from its interpretation by Browning! Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Leigh Hunt in the Examiner retorted upon ‘Z’ with natural indignation and a peremptory demand for the disclosure of his name. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Byron was most assuredly the projector of The Liberal and did not “consent to join Leigh Hunt and others.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Carlyle, Mrs., her advice, 49; her "mutinous maids of all work," 135; describes Mrs. Leigh Hunt's housekeeping, 224-5; her culinary trials, 225; "If he would only be satisfied!" How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Shelley wrote to Leigh Hunt on May 26, 1820, and enquired if he knew any bookseller who would publish an octavo volume, entitled a Philosophical View of Reform. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Leigh Hunt centres everything in the sequence of events and the simple statement of facts. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The only contemporary whose treatment by the Blackwood trio is truly consistent was Leigh Hunt, and of him it was consistently blackguardly. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Though Leigh Hunt is not deep in knowledge, moral metaphysical or classical, yet he is intense in feeling and has an intellect forever on the alert. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt used to say that "the most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every-day moments of existence." How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z His proposals, though, fell on deaf ears, and it is probable that Leigh Hunt did not even acknowledge the receipt of Shelley’s letter. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He remained not long there, but took a situation under Mr. Leigh Hunt, on the Examiner. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Leigh Hunt, always delighted to repay compliment with compliment, replied effusively in kind to the sonnet in 131 which Keats had dedicated the volume to him. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt most eloquently discussed the charms and advantages of these vegetable banquets, depicting in glowing words the cauliflowers swimming in melted butter, and the peas and beans never profaned with animal gravy. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The new critics gradually found responsible auxiliaries, notably Leigh Hunt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Leigh Hunt was asked to print it in The Examiner, but he refused. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z One of the best English critics on poetry, Leigh Hunt, sinned in this direction. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But in the style and sentiment we trace Leigh Hunt, or those elements in Keats which were naturally akin to him, at every turn. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Clarke later showed to Leigh Hunt two or three of Keats’s poems. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt, not very important in himself, was a cause of great authorship in others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Shelley rejoiced over their triumph, and wrote the following letter to Leigh Hunt congratulating him and proposing a scheme for the mutual defense of all friends of “rational liberty.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Leigh Hunt got up an anthology called Imagination and Fancy, in which he italicized the imaginative and the fanciful passages, and to which he prefixed his famous essay on "What is Poetry?" The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But in point of fact, outside the immediate Leigh Hunt circle, the volume made extremely little impression, and the public was as far as possible from being roused from its occupations or made tremble. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Brown says: “It was his choice, during my absence to lodge at Kentish Town, that he might be near his friend, Leigh Hunt, in whose companionship he was ever happy.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt supplies a valuable link between Lamb, the sole external moderator of the Lake school, Byron, Shelley, and the junior branch of imaginative Aesthetic, represented by Keats. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z First edition, with eight full-page woodcuts by J. Jackson after Thornton Leigh Hunt, son of the author. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z With a biographical and critical sketch by Leigh Hunt. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Leigh Hunt, indeed, who ought to have known, asserts in his review of the volume that they are aimed against ‘the morbidity which taints some of the productions of the poets of the Lake School.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It is dedicated to Leigh Hunt in the sonnet Glory and loveliness have passed away. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Hear my excellent friend, Leigh Hunt, soul of mild goodness, honest truth, and gentle brightness! Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Feast of the Poets, with other pieces in verse, by Leigh Hunt . . . A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z We notice in Leigh Hunt's London Journal for June, 1834, some verses entitled "Friends and Boyhood," written by Mr. Galt, in sickness. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z We have seen how Leigh Hunt declared his intention to try a reform of the measure, and how he carried out his promise in Rimini. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z This fact plunged the others in despair, and Leigh Hunt assured me that on vegetable diet his constitution had received a blow from which he had never recovered. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt compared him favourably with Garrick; Byron thought him inimitable in high comedy; Macready praised his versatility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z HUNT, Leigh.—Poems of Leigh Hunt With prefaces from some of his periodicals. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Leigh Hunt the same year admitted, in his "Feast of the Poets," only four to dine with Apollo, and Moore, with Scott, Southey, Campbell, made the company. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Leigh Hunt was still close by in the Vale of Health, and both in his circle and in Haydon’s London studio Keats was as welcome as ever. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z ‘Lord Byron,’ quoth Mr. Leigh Hunt, ‘has about as much dramatic genius as ourselves!’ Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Let him and Leigh Hunt repose under the shadow of their pensions. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Essays of Hazlitt and of Leigh Hunt upon the stage. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Leigh Hunt, then editor of the Examiner, wrote to Perry of the Chronicle to urge the opening of a public subscription. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z For certainly the strained simplicities and trivialities of some of his country ballads, which were what Leigh Hunt and his friends most disliked in Wordsworth’s work, could never be called thunders. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt I showed my 1st book to—he allows it not much merit as a whole; says it is unnatural and made ten objections to it in the mere skimming over. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z She suggested its name, and Leigh Hunt adopted it, and the passage as a motto which she had pointed out as offering ground for a good title.” Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt Opposite is the Via delle Belle Donne, a name, says Leigh Hunt, which it is a sort of tune to pronounce.”—Hare, Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series The poets of Moore's own day, who knew and liked Moore, never cared for Lalla; and Leigh Hunt, an excellent critic, spoke the truth about it. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Besides the portraits of Keats, I have added from characteristic sources those of the two men who most influenced him at the outset of his career, Leigh Hunt and Haydon. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It has been many times asserted that Leigh Hunt was morally weak. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z It was Leigh Hunt who gave Keats, in the Examiner, the first favorable review he received. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, and the Times are all eloquent in the praise of alcohol. The Night Side of London "Great women," says Leigh Hunt, "belong to the history of self-sacrifice." Oriental Women Other innovators had followed suit, including Leigh Hunt in that slippered, sentimental, Italianate fashion of his own. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Shelley knew of Leigh Hunt first as a political writer of considerable importance. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt as a man and as a writer is worth knowing. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt The Church, by Leigh Hunt–I had never seen that before! The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Henry Hallam, historian and essayist; Leigh Hunt, poet, essayist, and critic; Brunel and Stephenson, civil engineers; De Quincy, essayist; and Lord Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet, died. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 This Leigh Hunt reprinted with some introductory words in the Examiner, and later in life regretted that he had not done more. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He then proposed that they should establish a radical paper with Leigh Hunt as editor, the three to be equal partners. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z It is but fair to note that Dickens later disclaimed any intent to portray in Harold Skimpole the foibles of Leigh Hunt. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt Leigh Hunt said of it that in point of thought it "stands supreme, perhaps, above all in any language; nor can we ponder it too deeply, or with too hopeful a reverence." The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 The name of the “Cockney School of Poetry” was applied in 1817 to the literary circle of which Leigh Hunt was the principal representative, though Keats also was aimed at. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Keats going to one side quickly produced the sonnet To Leigh Hunt Esqr, with its excellent opening and its weak conclusion:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt’s three sonnets on the same subject, published in Foliage, have been already spoken of in the preceding chapter. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z These two attributes were possessed in an emphatic way both by Stevenson and by Leigh Hunt. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt In fact the butterfly character which every unprejudiced critic of Leigh Hunt has noticed, made it impossible for him to plan or to execute any work on a great scale. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The songs in Phantasmion were much admired at the time by Leigh Hunt and other critics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Though Leigh Hunt is not deep in knowledge, moral, metaphysical, or classical, yet he is intense in feeling, and has an intellect for ever on the alert. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The relations of Leigh Hunt to Byron, Shelley and Keats have been treated in a fragmentary way in various works of biography and criticism, and from many points of view. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z One of the most compendious and elegant phrases in which the genius of Keats has been defined is that of Leigh Hunt: “He never beheld an oak tree without seeing the Dryad.” Life of John Keats His very earliest work, written when he could not know much either of Shelley or Keats, shows as they do technique perhaps caught from Leigh Hunt. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) This character," wrote Leigh Hunt, "is one of the finest that ever proceeded from his pen. The Tatler, Volume 3 As to contemporary influences apparent in Keats’s first volume, enough has been said concerning that of Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The Mask of Anarchy, written on the occasion of the massacre at Manchester, was sent to Leigh Hunt for publication sometime before the first of November, 1819. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Leigh Hunt thought it high time to intervene, and removed the patient to his house, No. 13 Mortimer Terrace, Kentish Town. Life of John Keats In this respect Leigh Hunt, an immeasurably weaker thinker, had a much more catholic taste. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Compare with this the autobiographies of Gibbon, Leigh Hunt, Mill, or even the Reminiscences of Carlyle, and the widely-branching outpourings of Ruskin in his autobiographical sketches. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Leigh Hunt were alternately his models. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt’s work which comes into the period of his association with Byron, Shelley and Keats falls into four divisions: his theatrical criticism, his political journals, his poetry and his miscellaneous essays. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The stay at Leigh Hunt’s house came to an end in a way which speaks volumes for the shattered nerves, and consequent morbid susceptibility, of Keats. Life of John Keats The short remains of his life were spent chiefly at Lucca, Florence, and Pisa, with visits to most of the other chief Italian cities; Byron being often, and Leigh Hunt at the last, his companion. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Another set of my acquaintances," says Leigh Hunt in his autobiography, "used to assemble on Fridays at the hospitable table of Mr. Hunter, the bookseller, in St. Paul's Churchyard. Old and New London Volume I A large proportion of the remaining sonnets centre themselves more or less closely about the figure of Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt said that “the lines seem to take pleasure in the progress of their own beauty like sea nymphs luxuriating through the water.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The sonnet which begins with the unmetrical line— “How many bards gild the lapses of time” was included in the very first batch of verses by Keats which Cowden Clarke showed to Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats Something not dissimilar to the position which Moore occupies on the more classical wing of the poets of the period is occupied on the other by Leigh Hunt. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Leigh Hunt, in one of his agreeable books, remarks that there are few districts in London where you will not find a tree. Old and New London Volume I Leigh Hunt had written in these days a letter to Severn which did not reach Rome until after Keats’s death. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The friendship of Shelley and Leigh Hunt is the simple story of an intimacy founded on a common endowment of independence of thought and of capacity for self-sacrifice. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z It has the merit of brevity, and lends itself hardly at all to curtailment, but I miss one or two details, relating chiefly to Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats Leigh Hunt so easily falls into the egotistic and ridiculous, that it is a matter of wonder how he has escaped from them to so great a degree in the present volumes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Mr. Bell, the spirited publisher who founded this paper, is delightfully sketched by Leigh Hunt in his autobiography. Old and New London Volume I I was introduced to him by Leigh Hunt, and found him very pleasant, and free from all affectation in manner and opinion. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The Quarterly of April, 1818, contained the stupid and savage review of Endymion, provoked almost solely by the Keats’s offence in being the friend and public protégé of Leigh Hunt. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The sincerity or otherwise of Leigh Hunt as a personal, and more especially a literary, friend of Keats, has been a good deal canvassed of late. Life of John Keats Such were the delicacies of the livery, and the glorifications of their masters with which they entertain the kitchen.—From the Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Hone's old shop reminds us of the delightful books he published, aided by Lamb and Leigh Hunt. Old and New London Volume I But Leigh Hunt’s praise of one of his own supposed disciples of the Cockney School would carry little weight outside the circle of special sympathizers. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The sonnet Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left prison, the Sonnet to Haydon, and Sleep and Poetry, are anathematized. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The sonnet dedicating the book to Leigh Hunt, written off at a moment’s notice “when the last proof-sheet was brought from the printer,” was evidently composed in winter-time. Life of John Keats His friends were the first literary men of the day,—Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, Talfourd, Hazlitt, Southey, Coleridge,—all the giants of that day and generation, and he was loved by them all. Home Life of Great Authors By his side Leigh Hunt appears affected, De Quincey theatrical, Lamb—let us say discreet. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature In the interval a cloud of critics, including men of such gifts as Lamb, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt, were in their several ways champions of the same cause. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt is a man of talents, but vanity and vulgarity neutralize all his efforts to pollute the public mind. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z There are two writings of Leigh Hunt in which the question of Keats and his critics is touched upon. Life of John Keats Leigh Hunt, too, has a pin quite through his warm heart; and Stuart Mill, and many others. Home Life of Great Authors Leigh Hunt was frequently indebted to him, but generally paid the tribute due. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Leigh Hunt kept his own review of the volume back for some three months, very likely with the just idea that praise from him might prejudice Keats rather than serve him. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Revolutionary tendencies of the age—The Reaction—Counter Reform movement—Leigh Hunt—His Ancestry—School days—Career as a Journalist—Imprisonment—Finances—Politics—Religion—Poetry. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z But enough of Mr. Leigh Hunt and his simple neophyte. Life of John Keats Did not Buckinghamshire produce ‘The Election of the Laureat’—the prototype of Leigh Hunt’s ‘Feast of the Poets,’ and of a still more recent jeu d’esprit by Mr. Robert Buchanan? By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, a quarterly published in Italy by Leigh Hunt and Byron, 1822-23, to which Hazlitt also contributed. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Such were Leigh Hunt’s antecedents, and such his literary performances and reputation, when Keats at the age of twenty-one became his intimate. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z As Leigh Hunt was heir to his ancestry in an unusual degree, so in an extraordinary measure was the child father of the man. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z A letter to Leigh Hunt, May 1817, contains a phrase arraigning the God of Christians. Life of John Keats It reminds one, but at a wide interval, of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. At Christ’s Hospital, a London school which Leigh Hunt and Lamb attended about the same time as Coleridge. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The introduction was arranged to take place at Leigh Hunt’s cottage, where they met for dinner. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He had a tendency to religion when I first knew him, but Leigh Hunt soon forced it from his mind.... Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Of this school Mr. Leigh Hunt, as we observed in a former number, aspires to be the hierophant.... Life of John Keats I do not recommend anybody who has not the faculty of critical adjustment, and who wants to like Leigh Hunt, to read his essay on Dante in the Italian Poets. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt’s most successful series of essays, which began their run in 1819. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Leigh Hunt’s poem is a devilish good one—quaint here and there, but with the substratum of originality, and with poetry about it that will stand the test. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But his keen interest in matters of art, and the entry of various friends one by one—Wentworth Dilke, Hamilton Reynolds, Bailey and Leigh Hunt—soon arouse him to animated conversation. A Day with Keats In February 1818 Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley, undertook to write a sonnet each upon the river Nile. Life of John Keats Some of Leigh Hunt's sonnets, especially that which he wrote on the Nile in rivalry with Shelley and Keats, are very good. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt and Carlyle were once present among a small party of equally well known men. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Young Clarke was an ardent liberal and disciple of Leigh Hunt both in political opinions and literary taste. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Like some others of his revolutionary friends, Godwin, for example, Leigh Hunt, and Tom Paine, he represents the old dissenting spirit in a new incarnation. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Leigh Hunt had exasperated Terry by neglecting to notice his theatrical efforts. Life of John Keats At any rate she seems to have suited Leigh Hunt admirably. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Dryden," says Leigh Hunt, "is identified with the neighbourhood of Covent Garden. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches The event of the after scrutiny was one of many such occurrences which have riveted the memory of Leigh Hunt in my affectionate regard and admiration for unaffected generosity and perfectly unpretentious encouragement. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Americans often fancied that they noticed something American in Leigh Hunt's physique and manners, without knowing how near he came to owning a Cisatlantic birth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Punning plays a large part in it, as it did in Leigh Hunt’s familiar converse. Life of John Keats Leigh Hunt's offence is in the ordinary books rather undervalued. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 This poem," says Leigh Hunt, "was written in a house at the foot of Highgate Hill, on the border of the fields looking towards Hampstead. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Leigh Hunt brought on the scene a firm of publishers supposed to be sympathetic, the brothers Charles and James Ollier, who had already published for Shelley and who readily undertook the issue. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Among the books most prized, in our modest private book-room, are some which bear the delicate and graceful autograph of Leigh Hunt, having floated from his deserted library to these American shores. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Leigh Hunt, who was one of the listeners, manifested his surprise at the prodigality and intensity of the poet's religious expressions, and especially at his always speaking of Jesus as "our Savior." Arrows of Freethought The sentence was carried out; but Leigh Hunt's imprisonment in Horsemonger Lane Gaol was the merest farce of incarceration. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt describes it as "the most complete specimen of his genius; exquisitely loving; young, but full-grown poetry of the rarest description; graceful as the beardless Apollo; glowing and gorgeous with the colors of romance." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer But by this time Keats had become an established intimate in the Leigh Hunt household, and was constantly backwards and forwards between London and the Hampstead cottage. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Here also is Forster's "Perennial Calendar," a book of rural gossip, such as Leigh Hunt thoroughly enjoyed; and this copy of Aubrey de Vere's Poems was a present from the author. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Our own royal Sardanapalus, George the Fourth, although Leigh Hunt had the courage to describe him aright and went to the gaol for so doing, was styled by Society "the first gentleman in Europe." Arrows of Freethought Shelley's death happened within ten days of their arrival, and Byron and Leigh Hunt were left to get on together. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 For," says Leigh Hunt, "he has had more idolatry and imitation from his brethren than all the rest put together. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The weakness of Leigh Hunt’s style is of an opposite kind. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z And if there ever lived a literary man who might fitly claim for his funeral stone the inscription, "Lord, keep my memory green," it was the sweet-tempered, flower-loving Leigh Hunt. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Leigh Hunt speaks of his open, indolent, good-natured mouth, and of his forehead as "prodigious,—a great piece of placid marble." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 With no one perhaps are those literary memories which transform and vivify life so constantly present as with Leigh Hunt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Perhaps the most characteristic picture of this aspect of Shelley is Leigh Hunt's anecdote of a scene on Hampstead Heath. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The greater part of my time has been spent in Leigh Hunt’s society, who is certainly one of the most delightful companions. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Nevertheless, Leigh Hunt's roses always bloom, his breezes are always "redolent of joy and youth," and his sunny spirit pervades even a rainy day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Leigh Hunt called him, with much truth, "the Boanerges of the Temple." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Of the famous four treatments of the dramatists of the Restoration—Lamb's, Hazlitt's, Leigh Hunt's, and Macaulay's—his seems to me by far the best. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 With The Enquirer we are just entering the generation of Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle This work, and Leigh Hunt’s Examiner—which my father took in, and I used to lend to Keats—no doubt laid the foundation of his love of civil and religious liberty. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z With a Portrait of Leigh Hunt in his young days, etched by Ad. The Industries of Animals Thornbury quotes an old inhabitant, who writes of Leigh Hunt's cottage as having a "pretty balcony environed with creepers, and a tall arbor vit� which almost overtops the roof." Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London But Leigh Hunt was sixty when he planned them, and age, infirmity, perhaps also the less pressing need which the comparative affluence of his later years brought, prevented the completion. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 This was given her by Leigh Hunt, just before his death, who had the records proving it to be genuine. Italy, the Magic Land At the last field-gate, when taking leave, he gave me the sonnet entitled Written on the day that Mr Leigh Hunt left prison. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt has published his "Autobiography, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries," of which very copious extracts were given in the July number of this Magazine. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. Leigh Hunt, in his Journal, that— "It is brilliant book, full of thought and feeling." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Few good judges nowadays, I think, would deny that Leigh Hunt had a certain faculty for poetry, and fewer still would rank it very high. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 One of the company said he had lately been reading a good many books of Leigh Hunt's, and after everybody had interrupted with "Delightful!" Imaginary Interviews Leigh Hunt bore himself in his captivity with cheerful fortitude, suffering severely in health but flagging little in spirits or industry. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I One of the most agreeable memories connected with Button's," says Leigh Hunt, "is that of Garth, a man whom, for the sprightliness and generosity of his nature, it is a pleasure to name. All About Coffee Now nobody can ever think of respecting Leigh Hunt; he is not unfrequently amiable, but never in the least venerable. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The company laughed civilly at this piece of luck, and then they asked, civilly still, if Leigh Hunt had not done for a great many poets just what he was proposing to have done. Imaginary Interviews Leigh Hunt, despite his engrossing literary and editorial occupations and a recent trying illness of his own, did his best, while Keats was his inmate, to keep him interested and amused. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The modernized versions, however, are respectably executed—Leigh Hunt's admirably; and we hope for another volume. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Leigh Hunt had very pleasant things to say about coffee, giving to it the charm of appeal to the imagination, which he said one never finds in tea. All About Coffee In January 1808 the two brothers started the Examiner, and Leigh Hunt edited it with a great deal of courage for fourteen years. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt used to speak to me of having attended the great Roxburghe sale in 1812 just for the sake of gaining an idea of what such an affair was. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Concerning this sumptuous passage of the spread feast of fruits, not unequally rivalling the famous one in Milton,10 Leigh Hunt has some interesting things to say in his Autobiography11:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Wycherley borrowed Alceste, and turned him—we quote the words of so lenient a critic as Mr. Leigh Hunt—into "a ferocious sensualist, who believed himself as great a rascal as he thought everybody else." Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) P. xiv. is headed by the following MS. note: "Lord Byron has two copies of this work, R. C. Dallas, Esq., has likewise two copies, and Mr. Leigh Hunt one." The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry Of its sweetness and its music, of its grace and its wit, of its tenderness and its fancy, no better judge ever existed than Leigh Hunt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Upper Cheyne Row was for many years the home of Leigh Hunt. Chelsea The Fascination of London Leigh Hunt, in his review of Lamia published on the appearance of the volume, has some remarks partly justifying and partly impugning Keats’s treatment of the story in this respect:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Dryden defended or excused his own offences and those of his contemporaries by pleading the example of the earlier English dramatists; and Mr. Leigh Hunt seems to think that there is force in the plea. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Leigh Hunt would emit more pretty, pleasant, ingenious flashes in an hour than Wordsworth in a day. Stories of Authors, British and American Leigh Hunt's humour is so devoid of bitterness that it sometimes becomes insipid; his narrative so fluent and gossiping that it sometimes becomes insignificant. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt brought out his stories from the Italian poets. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Reynolds seeing the draft at once recognised that it would not do, and in criticizing it to Keats seems to have told him that it was too much in the manner of Leigh Hunt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Dr. Young and Mr. Leigh Hunt, two gentlemen who seldom agree with each other, but with whom, on this occasion, we are happy to agree, think that it ought to have gone to Mrs. Bracegirdle. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) There is something peculiarly anti-melancholic in Leigh Hunt's writings, and yet they are never boisterous—they resemble sunshine, being at once bright and tranquil. Stories of Authors, British and American Some vices of the snob Leigh Hunt undoubtedly had, but he was never in the least a pretentious snob. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In the presence of Byron, Trelawney and Leigh Hunt, Shelley's remains were cremated on the shore. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) This was a sonnet on the release of Leigh Hunt after serving a two years’ sentence of imprisonment for a political offence. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It was said of him by Leigh Hunt, that Lord Byron summed up his character in a sentence,—"Tommy loves a lord!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 I succeeded in carrying Leigh Hunt off, and, after entering into certain formalities, we were told that the value of the notes would be paid in twelve months. Stories of Authors, British and American "The bailiff who took him was fond of him," it is recorded of Captain Costigan; and in milder moments the same may be said of the critical bailiffs who are compelled to "take" Leigh Hunt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 I took it into my head yesterday to get up an impromptu dinner on this auspicious occasion—only my own folks, Leigh Hunt, Ainsworth, and Forster. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 "What a face is his to meet in a drawing-room!" wrote Leigh Hunt to me, the morning after I made them known to each other. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete He wrote a poem on it, "Brontë," an eulogy of Nelson, which won the patronising approbation of Leigh Hunt, Miss Martineau and others, to whom, at his special request, it was submitted. Emily Brontë This work, and Leigh Hunt's Examiner—which my father took in, and I used to lend to Keats—no doubt laid the foundation of his love of civil and religious liberty. Stories of Authors, British and American Leigh Hunt seems to have found this cheerfulness as akin to his own, as the vigour of both was complementary and satisfactory to his own, I shall not say weakness, but fragility. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 I hear from that friend of ours, that you are greatly interested in all that relates to Mr. Leigh Hunt, and that you will be happy to promote our design in reference to him. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 Tell Leigh Hunt when you have an opportunity how much he has affected me, and how deeply I thank him for what he has done. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete To Leigh Hunt he sent The Blessed Damozel, and received in acknowledgment a letter full of appreciative comment, and foretelling a brilliant future. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Business was by no means Leigh Hunt's strong point. Stories of Authors, British and American Even Lamb, in his own favourite subjects and authors, misses treasure-trove which Leigh Hunt unfailingly discovers, as in the now pretty generally acknowledged case of the character of De Flores in Middleton's "Changeling." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 One is ready, with Leigh Hunt, to ask for the difference between these qualities of vice. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I "Prior," sought, but could not see The "Hood" so late in front; And when I turned to hunt for "Lee," Oh! where was my "Leigh Hunt!" The Book of Humorous Verse Mrs. Landells, without straining their friendship, called him "the little wasp" to his face; but, as Leigh Hunt more justly said, if he had the sting of the bee, he also had the honey. The History of "Punch" Two days afterward Leigh Hunt came in a state of great agitation to tell me that his wife had burned them. Stories of Authors, British and American For most people, however, a true opinion persuasively stated is of much more consequence than the most elaborate logical justification of it; and it is this that makes Leigh Hunt's criticism such excellent good reading. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 One of them, Leigh Hunt, was something of a poet himself and a pleasant prose-writer. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Skimpole was taken from Leigh Hunt, yet was represented as a sort of scoundrel; and Boz confessed that he only adapted his lighter manner and airy characteristics. Pickwickian Studies Leigh Hunt went to prison for calling him a "fat Adonis of fifty." A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Leigh Hunt, in writing of Congreve, speaks of "the love of the highest aspirations" which he sometimes displays, and which makes us think of what he might have been under happier and purer auspices. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Probably this is one reason why selections from Leigh Hunt, of which Mr. Kent's is the latest and best, have been frequent. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt's was not a deep nature; his poetry is often trivial and sentimental, and his easy conversational style is intolerable when applied to a great theme. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Somewhat stilted and declamatory in speech, Kemble enacted a wide range of characters of Shakespearean tragedy with a dignity that won the admiration of Pitt, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Leigh Hunt's friend could not have elevated her commonplace into the sublime. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Leigh Hunt's critical judgment was better than his information. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I But still you can get a working Leigh Hunt together. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 We have seen Keats influenced by Spenser and by Leigh Hunt: now, though his love for Spenser continued, Shakespeare's had become the dominant influence. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 —Leigh Hunt Preparatory.—Divide the poem into four scenes, and describe each scene. The Ontario High School Reader Leigh Hunt has probably done a foolish thing in again becoming an editor. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 A Provincial Paper, reporting a speech upon heroes of the present War, represents the speaker as referring to "Bill Adams in Leigh Hunt's poem." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 Leigh Hunt never could keep anything to himself, and he has left record on record of the easy manner in which he acted on his beliefs. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The vulgarity of these lines we may attribute partly to the influence of Leigh Hunt, who himself wrote of The two divinest things the world has got— A lovely woman and a rural spot. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 He had an especial aptitude at completing sets of particular authors—Landor, Leigh Hunt, Byron, Shelley—and contributed much to the prevailing taste for modern first editions. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting We have, by the last steamer, "Leigh Hunt's Journal: a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful"—certainly a characteristic title. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Leigh Hunt—less read in these days than he deserves to be—sings truly— Heaven's in any roof that covers On any one same night two lovers. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) It is this sincere and unostentatious love of letters, and anxiety to spread the love of letters, that is the redeeming point of Leigh Hunt throughout: he is saved quia multum amavit. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It was thus he dealt with Leigh Hunt, borrowing his amusing, airy frivolity, and combining it with the meanness and heartlessness of Skimpole. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Leigh Hunt was a bookstaller, for he says: 'Nothing delights us more than to overhaul some dingy tome and read a chapter gratuitously. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Leigh Hunt has given English readers a quaff of Redi in his rollicking translation of "Bacchus in Tuscany," which is steeped in "Montepulciano," "the king of all wine." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 When Leigh Hunt was lying ill at Leghorn, Shelley and his friend Williams resolved on a coasting trip to that city. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Yet he owns that he took the light externals of the character from Leigh Hunt, and surely it is by those light externals that the bulk of mankind will always recognise character. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt says that the house was owned by Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, but he adduces no fact in support of his assertion; in any case, there are no historical associations connected with it. The Kensington District The Fascination of London Leigh Hunt, 64.—Verses from the Bohemian of Wraitsell, 70.—"Press on," 92.—Flowers, The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. But nobody loved the old romance with such devotion as Leigh Hunt. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) He was, indeed, a thorough Cockney and lover of London, as were also Chaucer, 347 Spenser, Milton, and Lamb’s friend Leigh Hunt. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 But I cannot conceive any doubt remaining in the mind of any person who has read Leigh Hunt's works, who has even read the Autobiography. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Occasionally a poem is composed of three or four sonnet-stanzas, as Leigh Hunt's The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit, but even then each sonnet remains an independent whole. The Principles of English Versification All the merry imps which beset Leigh Hunt, when about to compile selections from the comic poets, belong to Punch's retinue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 So you will pass from Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt to the books they loved to praise. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) He tells Leigh Hunt, in a letter written from Margate, that he thought so much about poetry, and ‘so long together,’ that he could not get to sleep at night. The Bibliotaph and Other People For Leigh Hunt, somewhat on Lamb's system of compensation for coming late by going away early, combined his readiness to receive favours with a practice of not acknowledging the slightest obligation for them. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 See Leigh Hunt's comments in "What is Poetry?" in Imagination and Fancy. The Principles of English Versification In the summer of 1822, his boat was swamped in a squall off the Gulf of Spezzia, and Shelley's drowned body was washed ashore, and burned in the presence of Byron and Leigh Hunt. Brief History of English and American Literature Now is the time to feel once more the charm of Lamb's peerless and unique essays; now is the time to listen to the honied voice of Leigh Hunt discoursing daintily of men and books. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Leigh Hunt has left us a graphic description of the renowned fiddler. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians It is impossible to shirk the Skimpole affair in any really critical notice of Leigh Hunt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He may deserve all that Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Thackeray said of him, but without his influence and patronage the history of cricket would be the poorer by many bright pages. Highways and Byways in Sussex Leigh Hunt’s ideal of a king describes very closely Gordon’s ideal:— p. General Gordon Saint and Soldier Bat the imprisonment was alleviated in every possible way, as we gather from Leigh Hunt's charming description of his prison in his Autobiography. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Of Leigh Hunt, whom he describes with warm enthusiasm, he dogmatically declares, 'there was not an English trait in him from head to foot, morally, intellectually, or physically.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) For flashes of crass insensibility to great poetry it is difficult to match anywhere, and impossible to match in Leigh Hunt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 My Spectator tells me that Leigh Hunt has published a good volume of Poem-selections; not his own poems, but of others. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 In London he was present at gatherings where Landor and Leigh Hunt represented the elder generation of poets; but he was more familiar with his contemporaries Henry Taylor and Aubrey de Vere. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies This was conducted upon what was styled by their opponents revolutionary principles, an accusation which Leigh Hunt afterward vehemently repudiated. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Lord Melbourne also sends the letter which Mr Leigh Hunt has taken the liberty of addressing to your Majesty, as well as that which he has addressed to Lord Melbourne. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 This fluent, musical, many-coloured verse was a capital medium for tale-telling, and Leigh Hunt is always at his best when he employs it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 I read of the advertisements of sales and auctions, but don’t envy you Londoners while I am here in the midst of green idleness, as Leigh Hunt might call it. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Byron and Leigh Hunt left Pisa on the last day of September. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This very fine tableau is taken from the beautiful lines written by Leigh Hunt. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's ever grateful and faithful Servant, Leigh Hunt. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 Leigh Hunt is himself entitled to a high place in the new school so far as mere priority goes, and to one not low in actual merit. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Leigh Hunt wrote meaningly of the "inexorably hard cocoa nut— milky at heart." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and many other well-known men of letters were friendly with Mr. Williams from his earliest days, and he had for brother-in-law, Wells, the author of Joseph and his Brethren. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Leigh Hunt had a quaint fancy that he had, as it were, by lineal descent, shaken hands with Milton. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty, and ventures to transmit the copy of Mr Leigh Hunt's poem, which he mentioned to your Majesty in his last letter. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 On the road to Parliament Hill he passed the spot where Shelley found a starving woman dying in the snow, and took her to Leigh Hunt's house to give her warmth. The Loom of Youth In the same year, Leigh Hunt published his Story of Rimini, most noteworthy for its graceful rhythmical structure in the unrestricted couplets of Chaucer. Early Reviews of English Poets There is something peculiarly anti-melancholic in Leigh Hunt’s writings, and yet they are never boisterous. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Even Keats could shrink from the mud-storms of the Scotch reviewers behind the confident zeal of Leigh Hunt and Reynolds. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters There are fuller collections of the Letters of Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brownings, Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and more recently the Letters of George Meredith, edited by his son. The Victorian Age in Literature Thus it was that Leigh Hunt referred to the essays which without doubt stand as the most characteristic of Charles Lamb's contributions to literature. Charles Lamb One of his first productions was the following sonnet, "written on the day when Mr Leigh Hunt left prison." Early Reviews of English Poets Revived by Shakespeare and the later Elizabethans, it fell into contempt again until Cowper once more began to claim freedom for English rhythm, and after him Coleridge, and the despised Leigh Hunt. Adventures in Criticism He seems so much more human than Leigh Hunt and De Quincey and the rest of them. Lydia of the Pines Leigh Hunt, as he is commonly called, was prominent before the public for fifty years as "a writer of essays, poems, plays, novels, and criticisms." McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader But Leigh Hunt combined in the happiest manner a readiness to extract favours with a confirmed habit of never acknowledging the smallest obligation for them. Americans and Others Of this school, Mr. Leigh Hunt, as we observed in a former Number, aspires to be the hierophant. Early Reviews of English Poets Leigh Hunt calls him "a poet of a purely conventional order," "a bitter and not very large-minded politician," "a critic more agreeable than subtle." Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Leigh Hunt is sweating articles for his new Journal; and both he and I think it somewhat shabby in you not to contribute. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals I think to return to Venice by Ravenna and Rimini, of both of which I mean to take notes for Leigh Hunt, who will be glad to hear of the scenery of his Poem. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals All the characteristic qualities of the class were united, indeed, in Leigh Hunt, as in no other single representative. Americans and Others If you see our republican friend, Leigh Hunt, pray present my remembrances. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Leigh Hunt ... had gone out of his way to insult Sir Walter and to make the most baseless insinuations against him. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Also the 'Pulci,' original and Italian, and any prose tracts of mine; for Mr. Leigh Hunt is arrived here, and thinks of commencing a periodical work, to which I shall contribute. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals You and Leigh Hunt have quarrelled then, it seems? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals He stood lost in admiration before the great borrowers of the world,—Alcibiades, Falstaff, Steele, and Sheridan; an incomparable quartette, to which might be added the shining names of William Godwin and Leigh Hunt. Americans and Others I have written to Mr. Leigh Hunt, stating your willingness to treat with him, which, when I saw you, I understood you to be. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Had a Charles Lamb, a Leigh Hunt, or an Edgar Allan Poe recast these tales, how different would have been their treatment! Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine I have read that which concerns the Cenci in it, and think Leigh Hunt's reflections on the story and tragedy very good. Records of a Girlhood In the meanwhile Lord Byron's carriage with Mr. Leigh Hunt arrived, accompanied by a party of dragoons and the chief officers of the town. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Leigh Hunt executed a very good translation of it, which he dedicated to Keats. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Leigh Hunt has written a real good and very original Poem, which I think will be a great hit. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals A favourable example of that style is found in Leigh Hunt's Feast of the Poets and in Edward Fitz-Gerald's Chivalry at a Discount. English Satires We protest against a word being effaced from the garrulous pages of Lady Blessington and Leigh Hunt. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 It was to meet Leigh Hunt that Shelley set out on 1st July with Williams in the Ariel for Leghorn. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition See with what a smart, decisive air he wears his hat—"jauntily," as Leigh Hunt would say—upon one side of his head. Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Leigh Hunt's poem is a devilish good one—quaint, here and there, but with the substratum of originality, and with poetry about it, that will stand the test. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Byron, Shelley, and Keats had died some years before Coleridge; Leigh Hunt survived until 1859. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Mr. Leigh Hunt informs us that the Countess of Northumberland, to whom the dedication is made, was the lady to whom Percy addressed his Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 Sesostris.—Of this poem Mr. Stoddard has the high praise that in imaginative quality it is unequalled in nineteenth century literature, unless by Leigh Hunt's sonnet on the Nile. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics Leigh Hunt, with perhaps more poetic originality, but with less accuracy of æsthetical perception, will be a useful guide to you in English poetry. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends "I think that if he had not been a great poet," says Leigh Hunt, "he would have been a great painter." Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Keats' intimate association with Leigh Hunt, whose acquaintance he made in 1816, was not without influence on his literary development. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Mary Shelley's own understanding had been called masculine by Leigh Hunt in 1817 in the Examiner. Mathilda Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859: a novelist, a poet, an editor, a critic, a companion of literary men, Hunt occupies a distinct position among the authors of his day. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The pantomime Kemble had in contemplation, however, was of the fashion Leigh Hunt looked back upon regretfully. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The most rural of these gentlemen is my friend Leigh Hunt, who lives at Hampstead. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals Like our own romanticist poet Longfellow, who rediscovered Europe for America, Leigh Hunt was a sympathetic and interpretative rather than a creative genius; and like Longfellow, an admirable translator. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century When his friend Leigh Hunt was imprisoned for libelling the Prince Regent, he was the first to visit him. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically He stands to fiction almost exactly as Leigh Hunt stands to the miscellaneous essay. The English Novel And ten years before Leigh Hunt had admitted into the columns of his Tatler many letters dwelling upon the defects of stage costume in regard to incongruousness and general lack of accuracy. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Leigh Hunt is likewise dependent on the public charity. Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition Yet no one in his generation did more than Leigh Hunt to familiarise the English public with Italian romance. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The account Mr. Colvin gives of Keats’s boyhood, for instance, is very pleasing, and so is the sketch of Keats’s circle of friends, both Leigh Hunt and Haydon being admirably drawn. Reviews Leigh Hunt's story has the air of having been written by one who cared for none of these things; but there were others who wrote with more gusto. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Among Macaulay's writings the "Lays of Ancient Rome" have epic qualities, which are also found in Leigh Hunt's "Story of Rimini." The Book of the Epic Then to join their little community were coming Leigh Hunt and his wife—Leigh Hunt, who had lain in prison for the right of free thought and free speech. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt were great city ramblers, followed in due course by Dickens, R.L.S., Shandygaff The greater part of this latter article is in Leigh Hunt's One Hundred Romances of Real Life, No. 1. Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 Compare Leigh Hunt's remark on the illustrations to the "Pantheon," cited by Mr. Coleridge in his notes to "Don Juan," Canto I, St. xli, Byron's Works, edit. 1903.—W. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Leigh Hunt, "man of genius in the shape of a Cockney," is my near neighbor, full of quips and cranks, with good humor and no common sense. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I By statistics he proved that the Blue-Coats had attained distinction quite out of ratio to their number, and cited Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb and many others as proof. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women On the other hand Leigh Hunt had an enthusiastic reverence for Carlyle. On the Choice of Books Leigh Hunt’s “Jennie kissed me” would probably take about thirty seconds; on a second reading he would have it by heart—the joy of a life-time. A Librarian's Open Shelf Leigh Hunt read the 'Faery Queen,' by-the-bye, as almost everything else that has been written in the English tongue, and even Macaulay alludes with rare commendation to his 'catholic taste.' Some Private Views Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as "wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing." The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I He was not, however, at all enthusiastic in his profession, and having become acquainted with Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Shelley, and others, he gave himself more and more to literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Concerning these lectures, Leigh Hunt remarked that it seemed "as if some Puritan had come to life again, liberalized by German philosophy and his own intense reflections and experience." On the Choice of Books He had thought, felt, and suffered so much, that, as Leigh Hunt says, he literally had intolerance for nothing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Of all authors indeed, and probably of all readers, Leigh Hunt had the keenest eye for merit and the warmest appreciation of it wherever found. Some Private Views Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Horne, and others actually executed some portions of the work; Tennyson and Browning, it was hoped, would lend a hand with some of the later parts. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) His body was cast ashore about a fortnight later, and burnt, in accordance with the quarantine law of the country, on a pyre in the presence of Byron, Leigh Hunt, and Trelawny. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature When Stoddard read the play, we wonder whether he saw in it any similarities to Leigh Hunt's poem on the same subject? Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini We are glad to possess a good autobiography of Leigh Hunt. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 He gave theatrical performances in London, Liverpool and Manchester, for the benefit of Leigh Hunt, Sheridan Knowles and various other needy authors and actors. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great Do you know Leigh Hunt's exquisite essays called 'The Indicator and Companion' &c., published by Moxon? The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) —Poet, the s. of a banker of English descent, was b. at Ballyshannon, entered the customs service, and was ultimately settled in London, where he contributed to Leigh Hunt's Journal. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Leigh Hunt resorts to stilted narrative and description. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini A companion poem to Paracelsus—so described by Browning to Leigh Hunt—was conceived by the poet soon after the appearance of the volume of 1835. Robert Browning We are inclined to believe that there are many good points about Leigh Hunt. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831 Also I sent enough manuscript for the first sheet, and a note to Moxon yesterday, last night, thanking him for his courtesy about Leigh Hunt's poems; and following your counsel in every point. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) He thought "the two finest mannered literary men he met in England were Leigh Hunt and De Quincey." Ralph Waldo Emerson Leigh Hunt, in his way, pleased and satisfied him more than almost any man he had seen in England. Yesterdays with Authors But he does not perceive the reasons that led Keats to alter this in the version he published in Leigh Hunt's Indicator to:— Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, and so on. Old and New Masters The matchless papers on Spenser and Homer represent one class, and the articles on Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt the other. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Leigh Hunt calls him 'the young poet' very rightly. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) You are aware that that child I am more proud of than twenty Auroras, even after Leigh Hunt has praised them. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Leigh Hunt was exactly the opposite of this; he was compact of all the spicy breezes that blow. Yesterdays with Authors "An eccentric taste for so young a girl; and Byron? and Moore? and Mrs. Hemans? and Leigh Hunt? and Barry Cornwall?" Miriam Monfort A Novel Shelley’s body was accordingly placed on a pyre and reduced to ashes, in the presence of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt, who are the “brother bards” referred to in the last stanza of the poem. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland As for the laurel, in a sense he is worthier of it than Leigh Hunt; only Tennyson can wait, that is the single difference. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) You try a goat; she does not agree with Baby, for she butts him treacherously, and, leaping over his prostrate body, scampers, like Leigh Hunt's pig in Smithfield Market, up all manner of figurative streets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 One of the men best worth meeting in London, under any circumstances, was Leigh Hunt, but it was a special boon to find him and Procter together. Yesterdays with Authors Cockney School, a literary school, so called by Lockhart, as inspired with the idea that London is the centre of civilisation, and including Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, and others. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Barry Cornwall Let me add to the above heap of floral beauty a basket of flowers from Leigh Hunt. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden With this immortal record of his excellence made by Shelley's hand, Leigh Hunt cannot be forgotten. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Leigh Hunt wrote: "My love has made me better and more desirous of improvement than I have been." Primitive Love and Love-Stories I happen to be the lucky owner of a copy of this edition that once belonged to Leigh Hunt, who has enriched it and perfumed the pages, as it were, by his annotations. Yesterdays with Authors Leigh Hunt would have us believe that this, too, was nothing but a pose. The Silent Isle Leigh Hunt has versified an anecdote illustrative of Thomson's luxurious idleness. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Few authors have had warmer admirers of their writings, or more sincere personal friends, than Leigh Hunt. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Here the social reformer Leigh Hunt came, and for the moment forgot that social reforms were needed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Leigh Hunt, in one of his letters to Procter in 1831, says: "As to Pasta, I love her, for she makes the ground firm under my feet, and the sky blue over my head." Yesterdays with Authors There can surely be few pieces of literary portraiture in the world more unpleasant than the portrait drawn of Byron in 1822 by Leigh Hunt. The Silent Isle Leigh Hunt has a pleasant line about the rose: And what a red mouth hath the rose, the woman of the flowers! Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Leigh Hunt's correspondence, as here collected by his son, is full of the wine of life in the best sense of spirit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Many years ago a Sonnet, by Leigh Hunt, characterising the poets, appeared in the Examiner. Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 He could say, like Leigh Hunt, "the visits of my friends were the bright side of my captivity; I read verses without end, and wrote almost as many." Gossip in a Library But Byron, according to Leigh Hunt, was a cold-blooded libertine, and had no conception of what love meant, except as a merely animal desire, which he abundantly gratified. The Silent Isle In the summer of 1822 his boat was swamped in a squall, off the Gulf of Spezzia, and Shelley's drowned body was washed ashore, and burned in the presence of Byron and Leigh Hunt. From Chaucer to Tennyson See, in Leigh Hunt's Feast of the Poets, the following couplet, and a note upon it: "But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo-song verses half up and half down." The Grammar of English Grammars Printed in The Indicator, September 27, 1820, signed ****, preceded by these words by Leigh Hunt, the editor:— Every pleasure we could experience in a friend's approbation, we have felt in receiving the following verses. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays His verses, I protest, are no whit less graceful or sparkling than those of his more eminent companions, Leigh Hunt and Barry Cornwall. Gossip in a Library Byron had invited Leigh Hunt out to Italy, with the design of producing, with his assistance, a monthly Review of a literary type. The Silent Isle We do not, however, remember Leigh Hunt, although his pleasantries would relieve the plaintiveness of some of the poetical contributions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 That on Leigh Hunt, always the pet topic of Toryism, from whom he certainly provoked some retaliation, is only paralleled in Blackwood. Famous Reviews When the sonnet was printed in the Examiner it purported to have reference to the Quarterly's treatment of Shelley's Revolt of Islam, which treatment Leigh Hunt was then exposing in a series of articles. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Yet not to possess the works of Leigh Hunt is to be ill-equipped for the minute study of literary history at the beginning of the century. Gossip in a Library Mrs. Leigh Hunt took a stronger line; she cordially disliked Byron from the first. The Silent Isle This work, and Leigh Hunt's "Examiner" newspaper,—which my father took in, and I used to lend to Keats,—I make no doubt laid the foundation of his love of civil and religious liberty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Of this school Mr. Leigh Hunt, as we observed in a former number, aspires to be the hierophant. Famous Reviews I. Thornton Leigh Hunt became a journalist, and held an important post on the Daily Telegraph. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays The scarcest of all Leigh Hunt's poetical pamphlets, but by no means the least interesting, is that whose title stands at the head of this chapter. Gossip in a Library On one occasion when Byron said to her that Trelawny had been finding fault with his morals, Mrs. Leigh Hunt said trenchantly that it was the first time she had ever heard of them. The Silent Isle In this action I mostly associate him in an eager parley with Leigh Hunt, in his little cottage in the "Vale of Health." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 They almost certainly combined in the heated attack on "The Cockney School," of which Leigh Hunt's generous, but not always judicious, advertisement was an obvious temptation to satire, embittered by political bias. Famous Reviews The publishers of the Works were Charles and James Ollier, who, starting business about 1816, had already published for Leigh Hunt, Keats, and Shelley. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays This is a charge that none of his friends will bring against Mr. Leigh Hunt. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Leigh Hunt soon perceived that he and Byron had very little in common. The Silent Isle At the last field-gate, when taking leave, he gave me the sonnet entitled, "Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 One of his first productions was the following sonnet, "written on the day when Mr. Leigh Hunt left prison." Famous Reviews He used to send verses to the Morning Chronicle at that time, and Leigh Hunt, the editor of The Examiner, would naturally be pleased to give anything of his friend's an additional publicity. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays On another occasion I had ventured to address Liverpool in the names of Leigh Hunt and Sheridan Knowles. Speeches: Literary and Social Leigh Hunt came out with his wife and family, and accepted quarters under Byron's roof. The Silent Isle As long as a man wears the modern coat," says Leigh Hunt, "he has no right to despise any dress. Ponkapog Papers But Leigh Hunt is not guilty, in the above paragraph, of shocking levity alone,—he is guilty of falsehood. Famous Reviews Three, at least, of his friends relate the story in their recollections of him: Mrs. Mathews in her life of her husband; Leigh Hunt in The Companion; and De Quincey in Fraser's Magazine. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays When Leigh Hunt's memoirs were being edited by his son Thornton in 1861, he engaged the services of three intimate friends of the family to read and collate the enormous mass of his father's correspondence. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Leigh Hunt avers that Byron was an innately avaricious man, and that, though he occasionally lavished money on some favourite scheme, it was only because, though he loved money much, he loved notoriety more. The Silent Isle Leigh Hunt, though not without questionable mannerisms, was rich in the inspiration that came but infrequently to his friend. Ponkapog Papers We fear that the appreciation of Keats was partly influenced by political considerations; since Leigh Hunt had so emphatically welcomed him into the camp. Famous Reviews Yours, my dear Lord, most sincerely and cordially, Leigh Hunt. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 When I first knew him, Bird was the medical adviser and friend of Leigh Hunt, whose family I used often to meet at his house. Tracks of a Rolling Stone One cannot pardon Leigh Hunt at any stage. The Silent Isle IT has recently become the fashion to speak disparagingly of Leigh Hunt as a poet, to class him as a sort of pursuivant or shield-bearer to Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Ponkapog Papers Leigh Hunt has now spoken out so freely to the public on the subject, that there can be no indelicacy in talking of it, in as far as it respects him, at least…. Famous Reviews But it still remains true that, speaking generally, the printed text of the letters published by Moore, Dallas, Leigh Hunt, and others, has not been collated with the originals. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Carlyle, for once taking the initiative of practical trouble, went in advance on a house-hunt to London, and by advice of Leigh Hunt fixed on the now famous house in Chelsea near the Thames. Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt's deliberate view of Byron is that he did everything for effect, that his vanity was boundless and insatiable, and that even his raptures were stage raptures. The Silent Isle Leigh Hunt declares that he has read, in some other account, of a dreadful, unendurable face that used to stare at people as they went by. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 The publication of the voluptuous story of Rimini was followed, it would appear, by mysterious charges against Leigh Hunt in his domestic relations. Famous Reviews Leigh Hunt is an enthusiast, very well intentioned, and, I believe, prepared for the worst. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 "Look up there," said Leigh Hunt, pointing to the starry skies, "look at that glorious harmony that sings with infinite voices an eternal song of hope in the soul of man." Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt was undoubtedly a trying person in some ways. The Silent Isle Shelley warmly assented to a remark of Leigh Hunt, "that a divine religion might be found out, if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith." A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare This was wrong, and, we believe, wholly unjust; but it was by no means unnatural; and precisely what Leigh Hunt is himself in the weekly practice of doing to other people without the same excuse. Famous Reviews She had thought of him as she thought of Allison's History of Europe in seventeen volumes, and the poems of Cornwall and Leigh Hunt. Mary Olivier: a Life —Thornton Leigh Hunt, whom he called his "favourite child." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Through them a truer conception of Byron can be formed than any impression which is derived from Dallas, Leigh Hunt, Medwin, or even Moore. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 Eighteen of these emendations were made by Byron in a copy of the fourth edition which belonged to Leigh Hunt. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 Leigh Hunt dared not, Hazlitt dared not, to defend the character of the "Story of Rimini." Famous Reviews The reference in this note to the trumpets of Iskander is the only one in his letters regarding a poem which was a great favorite of his, by Leigh Hunt, called "The Trumpets of Doolkarnein." Authors and Friends He had also been a contributor to Leigh Hunt's Reflector in 1810-1812. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Mrs. Leigh Hunt says that the 'left' foot was shrunken, but was not a club-foot. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 Leigh Hunt, one of the most sympathetic of critics, has remarked the passionate change from the third to the first person in the last two verses. Among My Books Second Series Leigh Hunt is delivered into our hands to do with him as we will. Famous Reviews It is a poem worthy to make the reputation of a poet, and is almost a surprise even among the varied riches of Leigh Hunt. Authors and Friends Leigh Hunt says that Dyer was among the pilgrims to Primrose Hill. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 "Shrieking fish," a strange idea of Leigh Hunt. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. In the list of such writers, who give us literature at second hand, the names of Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb and Thomas De Quincey are written large. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The days of Mr. Moore's follies are long since over; and, as he is a thorough gentleman, he must necessarily entertain the greatest contempt for such an under-bred person as Leigh Hunt. Famous Reviews It was Leigh Hunt's copy of "English Traits," and was full of marginal notes, which amused Emerson greatly. Authors and Friends Praise of this lady in Miss Hardcastle and other parts will be found in Leigh Hunt's Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres, 1807. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 He now became an enthusiastic disciple of the literary and political radical, Leigh Hunt, in whose home at Hampstead he spent much time. A History of English Literature Essays, by Lowell, in Among My Books; by Dowden, in Transcripts and Studies; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English Poets; by Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived It is therefore of little or no importance, whether Leigh Hunt be or be not a bad private character. Famous Reviews A brief index of one's markings at the end of a volume is a method of memory that commended itself to the booklovers of former days—to Leigh Hunt, for instance. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII Both Lamb and Leigh Hunt tell good stories of him at Christ's Hospital, Lamb in Elia and Hunt in his Autobiography. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 But Scott and Burns and Leigh Hunt are not an education. A Daughter of Fife I wish your lordship to do me the favour to look at and to consider with your usual kindness the accompanying note to Mr. Leigh Hunt respecting his poem, for which he requests £450. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 The magnificent recantation to Leigh Hunt—on whom Blackwood had bestowed even more than its share of abuse—has passed into a proverb. Famous Reviews |
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