“Archive: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)”. Poetry Foundation.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Jane Welsh Carlyle | The Monthly Chronicle published Leigh Hunt
's poem—inspired by a kiss from JWC
—Rondeau or Jenny Kissed Me. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 485 Hunt, Leigh. “Rondeau, 1838”. University of Toronto Libraries: Representative Poetry Online (RPO), edited by Ian Lancashire. |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill
, Henry Taylor
, and Leigh Hunt
. JWC
became especially fond of Hunt and Mill. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 100-1 |
Residence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Mary Somerville
and her family and Leigh Hunt
and his were neighbours of the Carlyles in Chelsea. Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz. 48 |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | While in London, TC
socialized with John Stuart Mill
, Mary
and Charles Lamb
, Henry Taylor
, Sarah Austin
and Leigh Hunt
. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | At the request of James T. Fields
she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 149 |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | |
Publishing | Harriet Downing | She had contributed More Poets on the Ice on 25 February 1835 to Leigh Hunt
's short-lived London Journal. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do. |
Friends, Associates | John Forster | JF
was well connected in literary circles. He counted Elizabeth Gaskell
, Lady Blessington
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, Charles Dickens
, Edward Bulwer Lytton
and Leigh Hunt
among his intimates. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The King and the Angel is INH
's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt
's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | John Keats | Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke
. Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt
, then Percy
and Mary Shelley
and William Hazlitt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary... |
Timeline
January 1808: Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book...
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January 1808
Leigh Hunt
(who had published his first book of poems at seventeen and thus achieved an early niche as a theatre critic) began editing The Examiner, a Sunday paper which he initiated in collaboration...
September 1810: Leigh Hunt began editing The Reflector, a...
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September 1810
Leigh Hunt
began editing The Reflector, a quarterly journal which was in circulation for two years.
1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...
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1816
Leigh Hunt
published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.
5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...
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5 May 1816
John Keats
appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt
's Examiner.
9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...
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9 June 1817
Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth
led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
16 August 1819: Several people were killed and more wounded...
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16 August 1819
Several people were killed and more wounded by cavalry, in a crowd gathered peacefully in St Peter's Fields at Manchester to hear the radical Henry Hunt
speak in favour of electoral reform: this became known...
October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...
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October 1822
Byron
published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt
briefly published at Pisa.
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
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1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
July 1837: Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels...
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July 1837
Leigh Hunt
published Blue-Stocking Revels in the Monthly Repository, New Series volume 11: a traditional Sessions of the Poetspoem, with Apollo pronouncing on (here) contemporary women writers.
By 5 June 1847: Leigh Hunt published Men, Women, and Boo...
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By 5 June 1847
Leigh Hunt
published Men, Women, and Books.
By June 15 1850: Leigh Hunt's Autobiography was published,...
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By June 15 1850
1851: Leigh Hunt published Table Talk....
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1851
Leigh Hunt
published Table Talk.
Texts
Hunt, Leigh. “Rondeau, 1838”. University of Toronto Libraries: Representative Poetry Online (RPO), edited by Ian Lancashire.
Hunt, Leigh, editor. The Examiner. John Hunt.