EDITED BY

ERIC ROBERTSON AND FRANK T. MARZIALS.

LIFE OF LEIGH HUNT.

REL

CALIFOR

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, LTD.,

24, WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1893.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Ancestry in Barbadoes and Philadelphia; grandfathers and
grandmothers; father and mother; the American Revo-
lution; father flies to England and takes Orders; the
Rev. Isaac Hunt; popular preacher; unstable character;
tutor of James Henry Leigh, nephew of Duke of Chandos ;
Southgate; birth of Leigh Hunt; King's Bench Prison;
struggles; brothers and sisters; his childhood; aunts from
Barbadoes; the Wests and the Thorntons; influence of
parents on Leigh Hunt; their death

CHAPTER II.

Christ Hospital; refuses to fag; ardent friendships; school-

fellows Wood and Mitchell; studies Italian; his masters,

Field, Boyer, and Stephens; Cooke's "British Poets";

writes verses; friends in London; holiday with Barbadean

aunts and cousins; falls in love with cousin Fanny ; Doctor

Callcott and Horne Tooke; rejects eternal punishment;

deputy-Grecian; leaves school

CHAPTER III.

Defects in education; arithmetic; care of Richard Thornton;
"Juvenilia"; poems described; list of subscribers; his ideal
woman; falls in love; the Kents; engaged to Marianne;

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