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Leigh Hunt, a Brief Bio
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Leigh Hunt was what some would call a second-rate Romantic. Though himself not a phenominal poet, he is responsible for introducing and/or encouraging various great literary minds of his day, including: John Keats, Percy Bysse Shelley, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, and Charles Dickens. He authored many influential essays (indeed perhaps mastering the form of rhetoric), a novel, and also a few plays. His pursuits with the genre of the periodical perhaps define his greatest contribution to 19th century letters. Writing for the Political and Theatrical Examiner (1808-1886), as well as the journals The Reflector, The Literary Pocket Book, The Indicator, The Liberator, and The Tatler, he left a lasting legacy as a great personal essay writer. He is also well-known for his theatre criticism. In 1813, he was thro • Leigh HuntJames Henry Leigh Hunt was born 19 October 1784 in Southgate, Middlesex and died on 28 August 1859 in London. As a writer, Hunt was a jack-of-all-trades, achieving early success as a critic, essayist, journalist, and poet, and establishing himself as an editor of influential journals in an age when the periodical was at the height of its cultural influence. Hunt's poems, of which "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Jenny Kissed Me" are probably the best known, reflect the influence of foreign versification.From the beginning, even in his first volume, Juvenilia (1801), his poems reveal a love for Italian literature. He looked to Italy, he said, for a "freer spirit of versification," and in The Story of Rimini (1816), published in the year of his meeting with Keats, he reintroduced a freedom of movement in English couplet verse lost in the eighteenth century. His unapologetic delight in color and imaginative sensual experience, which owed much to Italian poetry, had a p •
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