Life of Leigh HuntW. Scott, Limited, 1893 - 250 páginas Biography of James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1852), youngest son of Isaac Hunt and Mary Shewell, was born in Southgate, [Middlesex], England. He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. In 1809, he married Marianne Kent (d.1855), and had 3 children, Thornton, John, and Mary. He became an editor of a periodical called the "Examier." He wrote both prose and poetry, and became a notable theatrical critic. He published "Critical Essays", and published many articles as well as poetry. He lived in Kensington and Hammersmith, and was published in London. He knew Byron, Keats and Shelley and who had great admiration for Leigh Hunt. |
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... Review , and one of Hunt's bitterest enemies . Two of the masters of Christ Hospital , Stephens and Trollope , took copies , as did also George Dyer the poet , an " old boy , " and Christopher Papendieck , the father , pro- bably , of ...
... Review , and one of Hunt's bitterest enemies . Two of the masters of Christ Hospital , Stephens and Trollope , took copies , as did also George Dyer the poet , an " old boy , " and Christopher Papendieck , the father , pro- bably , of ...
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... review of " Juvenilia , " and an announcement that Mr. J. H. L. Hunt is engaged on the composition of a tragedy called " The Earl of Surrey . " He also contributed to the volumes of the Register for 1805 , 1806-7 , 1808-9 , and 1810-11 ...
... review of " Juvenilia , " and an announcement that Mr. J. H. L. Hunt is engaged on the composition of a tragedy called " The Earl of Surrey . " He also contributed to the volumes of the Register for 1805 , 1806-7 , 1808-9 , and 1810-11 ...
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... Review , just started ; but if this was intended as a bait for the clever young Radical , it was ineffectual , and he showed a much greater fastidiousness afterwards in declining to visit Lord Holland , so determined was he to keep ...
... Review , just started ; but if this was intended as a bait for the clever young Radical , it was ineffectual , and he showed a much greater fastidiousness afterwards in declining to visit Lord Holland , so determined was he to keep ...
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... review . " At all events , whatever may have been the acclama- tions of his friends , they were drowned by the noisy and violent abuse of his enemies . In Mr. Alexander Ireland's valuable list of writings of Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt will ...
... review . " At all events , whatever may have been the acclama- tions of his friends , they were drowned by the noisy and violent abuse of his enemies . In Mr. Alexander Ireland's valuable list of writings of Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt will ...
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... reviewed with warm appreciation and just discrimination in the Examiner of June 1st , and July 6th and 13th . The subsequent intercourse between the two seems to have been somewhat intermittent until May , 1820 , when Keats went to live ...
... reviewed with warm appreciation and just discrimination in the Examiner of June 1st , and July 6th and 13th . The subsequent intercourse between the two seems to have been somewhat intermittent until May , 1820 , when Keats went to live ...
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24 Warwick Lane admiration afterwards appeared Autobiography beautiful brother called Carlyle character Charles Cowden Clarke Charles Lamb charming Chaucer Christ Hospital critical delightful doubt Edited by Leigh Edited by William editor English Ernest Rhys essays Examiner Fancy father friends genius Hampstead Hazlitt heart Hero and Leander Hunt's Introduction Isaac Hunt Italian Italy John Joseph Skipsey Juvenilia Keats Lady Leigh Hunt letter literary Littell's Living Age Living Age London Journal Lord Byron matter Monthly never Novello Ollier paper passage perhaps person play pleasant pleasure poem Poetical poetry Poets political prison prose published Review Rimini RODEN NOEL says schoolfellows seems SELECTED Shelley Shelley's SONGS SONNETS Spenser spirit Story of Rimini T. W. Rolleston taste tells Thornton Hunt thought tion took translations verses volume WALTER SCOTT wife William Hazlitt William Sharp Wordsworth writing written wrote young
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Página 129 - To the Grasshopper and the Cricket GREEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass, And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass : Oh sweet and tiny cousins that belong One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Página 84 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 86 - What person, unacquainted with the true state of the case, would imagine, in reading these astounding eulogies, that this Glory of the People was the subject of millions of shrugs and reproaches ! That this Protector of the Arts...
Página 129 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Página 129 - The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.