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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... sonnets ; follows his literary bent ; out of prison ; changes of residence ; his portrait drawn by his friends ; his personal charm ; his social circle ; the Cowden Clarkes ; the Novellos ; the Lambs ; Leigh Hunt at breakfast ; his ...
... sonnets ; follows his literary bent ; out of prison ; changes of residence ; his portrait drawn by his friends ; his personal charm ; his social circle ; the Cowden Clarkes ; the Novellos ; the Lambs ; Leigh Hunt at breakfast ; his ...
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... sonnet of Keats and the letter of Lamb , the verdict even of his poetical friends does not appear to have been enthusiastic . Byron called the poem a devilish good one , " and Moore admitted it was " full of beauties " ; but the former ...
... sonnet of Keats and the letter of Lamb , the verdict even of his poetical friends does not appear to have been enthusiastic . Byron called the poem a devilish good one , " and Moore admitted it was " full of beauties " ; but the former ...
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... sonnets to Shelley , Keats , Horace Smith , and B. R. Haydon . Here were also printed his pretty but somewhat overpraised verses " To T. L. H. " and " To J. H. , " written in prison to his little sons Thornton and John ; sonnets to his ...
... sonnets to Shelley , Keats , Horace Smith , and B. R. Haydon . Here were also printed his pretty but somewhat overpraised verses " To T. L. H. " and " To J. H. , " written in prison to his little sons Thornton and John ; sonnets to his ...
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... sonnet on Chapman's Homer first appeared in print . It was on the 30th of December in the same year that Keats and Hunt composed together their sonnets on " The Grass- hopper and Cricket . " Clarke , who was the only other present , has ...
... sonnet on Chapman's Homer first appeared in print . It was on the 30th of December in the same year that Keats and Hunt composed together their sonnets on " The Grass- hopper and Cricket . " Clarke , who was the only other present , has ...
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... sonnet by Leigh Hunt : - " Green little vaulter in the sunny grass , Catching your heart up at the feel of June , Sole ... sonnets , Hunt's is the better composition of the two , but Keats's first line is worth the whole of it . Hunt ...
... sonnet by Leigh Hunt : - " Green little vaulter in the sunny grass , Catching your heart up at the feel of June , Sole ... sonnets , Hunt's is the better composition of the two , but Keats's first line is worth the whole of it . Hunt ...
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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.