Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
Autor/a de The autobiography of Leigh Hunt
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Obres de Leigh Hunt
Selected Essays 6 exemplars
Wit and Humour, Selected from the English poets; with an illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments (1882) 4 exemplars
The Companion 3 exemplars
The Italian poets translated into English prose. Containing a summary in prose of the poems of Dante, Pulci, Boiardo,… (1859) 3 exemplars
Beaumont & Fletcher 2 exemplars
Beaumont and Fletcher: 2 exemplars
Essays, edited by A. Symons 2 exemplars
Abou Ben Adhem 2 exemplars
Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 63) (2016) 1 exemplars
Poems (Vol. II of Essays and Poems, selected and Edited By Reginald Brimley Johnson: With Bibliography, and Etchings By… (1891) 1 exemplars
Men, women, and books 1 exemplars
Poems Of The East 1 exemplars
Ultra-Crepidarius 1 exemplars
The CORRESPONDENCE Of LEIGH HUNT: Vol. I 1 exemplars
The Town - Its Memorable Characters and Events 1 exemplars
Jenny Kiss'd Me 1 exemplars
Leigh Hunt's London Journal 1 exemplars
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The descent of liberty a mask 1 exemplars
My Books 1 exemplars
Stories in verse 1 exemplars
Essays. The Indicator. The Seer. 1 exemplars
Foliage; or Poems original and translated 1 exemplars
Tales By Leigh Hunt - Now First Collected 1 exemplars
The Reflector 1 exemplars
Wishing Cap Papers 1 exemplars
CLASSIC TALES: SERIOUS AND LIVELY 1 exemplars
Rimini : and other poems 1 exemplars
A Tale For A Chimney Corner 1 exemplars
Leigh Hunt's journal; a miscellany for the cultivation of the memorable, the progressive, and the beautiful 1 exemplars
Leigh Hunt's Poems 1 exemplars
The palfrey : a love-story of old times 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
Pinhey's Point property 1 exemplars
Benjamin Gregory 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 917 exemplars
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Col·laborador — 250 exemplars
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Col·laborador — 185 exemplars
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Col·laborador — 40 exemplars
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2012) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar — Editor, algunes edicions — 8 exemplars
English short stories of the nineteenth century — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The King's Story Book — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Hunt, Leigh
- Nom oficial
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh
- Data de naixement
- 1784-10-19
- Data de defunció
- 1859-08-28
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Southgate, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Putney, London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Educació
- Christ's Hospital
- Professions
- essayist
critic
journalist
poet
editor - Relacions
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (vriend)
Keats, John (vriend)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 93
- També de
- 33
- Membres
- 281
- Popularitat
- #82,782
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 52
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1
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We, contemptuous of everything less convenient, bow backwards and forwards with a certain indifferent air of gentility, infinitely predominant.… (més)