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Leigh Hunt
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Leigh Hunt, born James Henry Leigh Hunt in Southgate in 1784, was an English journalist, poet, autobiographer, and literary critic. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and held citizenship in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Hunt wrote in English and also spoke Italian. He died in Putney in 1859 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
His literary output includes works such as *Amyntas*, *Stories from the Italian Poets*, and *Table-Talk*. He also authored *The town its memorable characters and events St.Paul to St. Jame's* and *An Answer To The Question What Is Poetry Including Remarks On Versification*. Hunt’s archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 148
Top works
- 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Denmark
- Active from
- 1784
- Active to
- 1859
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 83
- Total plays
- 158
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Leigh+Hunt">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing
· 1994 · cited 14,037x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Jenny kissed me when we met,Jumping from the chair she sat in;Time, you thief, who love to getSweets into your list, put that in.Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,Say that health and wealth have missed me;Say I'm growing old, but addJenny kissed me.”
- “The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!”
- “She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."”
- “Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.”
- “The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
- “It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- James Henry Leigh Hunt , ( 1784-10-19 ) 19 October 1784, Southgate , London , England
- Died
- 28 August 1859 (1859-08-28) (aged 74), Putney , London, England
- Burial place
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Education
- Christ's Hospital , Newgate Street, London
- Spouse
- Marianne Kent ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1808 ; died 1857 )
- Children
- 10, including Thornton Leigh Hunt
- Relatives
- John Hunt (brother) Robert Hunt (brother) Elizabeth Kent (sister-in-law) Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (grand-niece)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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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