Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as did Tennyson and Browning. A poet of charm and technical skill, and an able translator and playwright, Leigh Hunt excelled as an essayist, literary critic and letter writer. His concern was always, in the words of his son, to 'open more widely the door of the library', to share his literary enthusiasms and extend his readers' tastes. This anthology draws on the full range of Hunt's poetry and prose, revealing a writer committed to the humane and civilizing powers of literature and friendship.
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...a lively collection of specialised studies....
A misunderstood Romantic
–J.C.C. Mays, The Irish Times, 2/12/2005
A misunderstood Romantic
–J.C.C. Mays, The Irish Times, 2/12/2005
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Poetry, in its highest sense, belongs exclusively to such men as Shakspeare, Spenser, and others, who possessed the deepest insight into the spirit and sympathies of all things; but poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Poetry, in its highest sense, belongs exclusively to such men as Shakspeare, Spenser, and others, who possessed the deepest insight into the spirit and sympathies of all things; but poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Selected Writings: Leigh Hunt (Fyfield Books) by Leigh Hunt in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 75, and page 96
- Captain Sword and Captain Pen: An Anti-War Poem by Leigh Hunt in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by R S Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Selected Writings by Jeremy Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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