Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
Autor de The autobiography of Leigh Hunt
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Leigh Hunt was so prolific that, if his writing were ever collected, it would exceed 100 volumes of mostly unmemorable prose. He was so eccentric and socially visible that even Dickens's caricature of Hunt as the perennially cheerful Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is immediately recognizable. But mostrar más his philosophy of cheer, however eccentric among such doleful writers of his generation as Coleridge and Byron, appealed to middle-class public taste, which accounts for his immense following. Educated, like Coleridge and Lamb, at Christ's Hospital, Hunt became a journalist, helping his brother John edit the weekly Examiner. As a result of the paper's liberal policy, they were both fined and imprisoned for two years for writing a libelous description of the Prince Regent on his birthday. Hunt turned his prison cell into a salon and enjoyed visits from Jeremy Bentham, Byron, Keats, Lamb, and Hazlitt. After his release, Hunt settled in Hampstead, London, a political martyr and a model of domesticity. His writing includes The Feast of the Poets (1814), a satire of contemporary writers; The Story of Rimini (1816), a saccharine Italianate romance; and Hero and Leander (1819). Young poets such as Keats found the sensual surfaces easy to imitate. But mostly Hunt wrote essays and edited dozens of short-lived magazines and journals, providing an insight into the literary life of London during this period. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Obras de Leigh Hunt
Selected Essays 6 copias
Wit and Humour, Selected from the English poets; with an illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments (1882) 4 copias
The Italian poets translated into English prose. Containing a summary in prose of the poems of Dante, Pulci, Boiardo,… (1859) 3 copias
The Companion 3 copias
Beaumont & Fletcher 2 copias
Abou Ben Adhem 2 copias
Beaumont and Fletcher: 2 copias
Essays, edited by A. Symons 2 copias
Poems (Vol. II of Essays and Poems, selected and Edited By Reginald Brimley Johnson: With Bibliography, and Etchings By… (1891) 1 copia
Leigh Hunt's London Journal 1 copia
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 63) (2016) 1 copia
Poems Of The East 1 copia
Ultra-Crepidarius 1 copia
Men, women, and books 1 copia
Jenny Kiss'd Me 1 copia
My Books 1 copia
Stories in verse 1 copia
Essays. The Indicator. The Seer. 1 copia
The Reflector 1 copia
Wishing Cap Papers 1 copia
Rimini : and other poems 1 copia
A Tale For A Chimney Corner 1 copia
The descent of liberty a mask 1 copia
Leigh Hunt's Poems 1 copia
Sin título 1 copia
Pinhey's Point property 1 copia
Benjamin Gregory 1 copia
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Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Contribuidor — 81 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuidor — 31 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
The dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar — Editor, algunas ediciones — 8 copias
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The King's Story Book — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- Hunt, Leigh
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- Hunt, James Henry Leigh
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1784-10-19
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1859-08-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Southgate, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Putney, London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Educación
- Christ's Hospital
- Ocupaciones
- essayist
critic
journalist
poet
editor - Relaciones
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (vriend)
Keats, John (vriend)
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- Miembros
- 283
- Popularidad
- #82,295
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