Leigh Hunt
British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
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- Amyntas
- Stories from the Italian Poets
- Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's Introduction and Postscript; Volume 1
- Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's Introduction and Postscript; Volume 2
- The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript
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- Denmark
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- 1989
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James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, with his brother John Hunt. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public.
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1784 births1859 deaths18th-century English people19th-century English dramatists and playwrights19th-century English essayists19th-century English journalists19th-century English male journalists19th-century English memoirists19th-century English novelists19th-century English poetsBritish theatre criticsBurials at Kensal Green Cemetery