The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leigh Hunt
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1784-1850
- Setting: England and Italy
- Principal Characters: Leigh Hunt, Marianne Kent Hunt, Isaac Hunt, John Hunt, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, JOHN KEATS, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Prisoners, Prisons, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Publishing or publishers, Captivity, Romanticism
Seldom, if ever before or since, has a creative man, notable in his own right, been so fortunate in his association with great men as was Leigh Hunt. To have known intimately all three of the leading “younger generation” English Romantic poets—Byron, Shelley, and Keats—and to have been well acquainted with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Carlyle is a social and intellectual privilege not in any sense usual.
The AUTOBIOGRAPHY of James Henry Leigh Hunt, to give him his full name, is far more than a chronological account of the life of an important essayist...
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