79. READINGS FOR RAILWAYS, or anecdotes and other short stories, reflections, maxims, characteristics, passages of wit, humour, and poetry, etc.

Together with points of information on matters of general interest collected in the course of his own reading. (Preface dated Dec. 1st, 1849.) 1850.

80. READINGS FOR RAILWAYS.

1853.

[Another series with the same full title as the above, by L. H. and J. B. Syme.]

81. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, or the finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable; with opinions of distinguished critics, notes, explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface. 1855.

82. BOOK OF THE SONNET.

Edited by Leigh

Hunt and S. Adams Lee. 2 vols.

London and Boston.

1867.

[Vol. I. English Sonnets. A prefatory essay on poetry by L. H., his introductory letter to S. Adams Lee, and a few of his sonnets.

Vol. II. American Sonnets. Essay by S. Adams Lee.]

83. SHELLEY'S WORKS. Early Poems. 1871. [With memoir of Shelley by L. H. Reprinted from Lord Byron and his Contemporaries.']

[Note. When in Italy, Leigh Hunt wished to bring out a selection of modern English literature, but the Italian bookseller refused to publish the book, being in fear of the authorities.]

VII. POETRY: SEPARATE POEMS.

84. STORY OF RIMINI. 1816, 1817, 1819.

[Reprinted in altered form in Poetical Works.]

85. HERO AND LEANDER AND BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.

1819.

[The volume contained also "The Panther.' 'Hero and Leander' has been often reprinted in an abbreviated form; and one passage from Bacchus and Ariadne may be found in Poetical Works, 1832, and in Rimini and other poems.]

86. ULTRA CREPIDARIUS. A satire on Gifford, to which are appended extracts from Hazlitt's letter to Gifford. 1823.

87. BACCHUS IN TUSCANY. A Dithyrambic Poem, from the Italian of Francesco Redi, with notes original and select. 1825.

[Reprinted in Poetical Works. Some specimens of this with an account of the author appeared in The Companion, June 18th, 1828.]

88. CAPTAIN SWORD AND CAPTAIN PEN. With some remarks on War and Military Statesmen. 8 illustrations. 1835, 1839, 1849.

[Revised and reprinted in Poetical Works.]

89. BLUE STOCKING REVELS.

n.d.

[On the authority of Lowndes' and Allibones' Bibliographical Dictionaries.]

90. THE PALFREY. A love story of old times. 1842.

[6 illustrations. Stolen by American and Parisian papers on its first appearance. Reprinted in Poetical Works.]

91. Poems of L. H. will also be found in :(a) POEMS OF CHAUCER MODERNIZED. 1841.

[Contains 3 by L. H.-The Manciple's TaleThe Friar's Tale-The Squire's Tale.]

(b) THE POETICAL REGISTER or Repository of Fugitive Poetry, for 1801, 1805, 1806-1807, 1808-1809, 1810-1811.

VIII. POETRY: COLLECTED.

92. JUVENILIA, or a collection of Poems; written between the ages of twelve and sixteen by J. H. L. Hunt, late of the Grammar School of Christ's Hospital, and dedicated by permission to the Hon. J. H. Leigh, containing Miscellanies, Translations, Sonnets, Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, Hymns, and Anthems. editions in 1801; 3rd ed. 1802; 1803 [also called the 3rd]; 1804 [called the 4th].

2

93. THE FEAST OF THE POETS. With notes, and other pieces in verse by the editor of the Examiner. 1814, 1815.

[Some copies of the first edition were struck off with date 1815. L. H.'s name appears on titlepage of 2nd edition, which was "amended and enlarged." The Feast of the Poets is reprinted in an enlarged and modified form from the Reflector, 1812.] 94. FOLIAGE, or poems original and translated. 1818.

[Some copies of this were struck off with date 1819. The volume is divided into Greenwoods, or original poems, and Evergreens, or translations from Poets of Antiquity.]

95. RIMINI, and other poems. Boston, 1844.

96. STORIES IN VERSE.

1855.

Now first collected.

97. FAVOURITE POEMS. Boston, 1877 and in Modern Classics, 1881-2.

98. POEMS OF LEIGH HUNT AND THOMAS HOOD. 1889.

[Edited by J. Harwood Panting, Canterbury Poets.]

[Being Nos. 84 and 104, 85 and 93, and 94, bound together with separate title-pages.]

100. B. In I vol. 1832.

[Being the first collected edition, published by subscription.]

101. C. In I vol. Containing many pieces now first collected 1844, 1846, and 1888.

[Including the 'Legend of Florence."]

102. D. In 2 vols. Revised by himself, and edited with an introduction by S. Adams Lee. Boston, 1857, 1866.

[With the 'Legend of Florence' and 'Lovers' Amazements.']

103. E. In I vol. Now finally collected, revised by himself, and edited by his son, Thornton Hunt, with illustrations by Corbould. 1860.

[Not in any way a complete edition, with no plays. Also printed in America.]

IX. DRAMATIC PIECES.

["The propensity to dramatic writing had been strong in me from boyhood."]

104. DESCENT OF LIBERTY, a mask, to which is prefixed an account of the origin and nature of masks. 1815, 1816.

105. AMYNTAS, a tale of the woods, from the Italian of Torquato Tasso. 1820.

['Ode to the Golden Age,' from this, has been often reprinted.]

106. LEGEND OF FLORENCE, a play in 5 acts. 1840.

[Reprinted in Poetical Works, 1844 and 1857, in G. H. Lewes' Selections from Modern British Dramatists, 1861, and in America. Performed several times at Covent Garden, at Windsor Castle in 1852, and at Manchester in 1859.

"The Legend of Florence, as first written, did not conclude with the death of the husband. He was dismissed into a monastery; and the wife was married to her first lover by a special license' of the Pope, as in the original story; a very special license from that quarter, but suggesting, I think, a more touching as well as a more refined and dramatic treatment."-LETTER TO S. ADAMS LEE IN POETICAL WORKS, 1857.] 107. LOVERS' AMAZEMENTS, or How will it end? 1850.

[Printed in Leigh Hunt's Journal and Poetical Works, 1857.]

108. THREE UNPUBLISHED PLAYS.

Secret Marriage, since called the Prince's Marriage.