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Leigh Hunt

NOUN
  1. British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

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  • She liked Hogg and loved Leigh Hunt, but Peacock was uncongenial to her. Biography in the DNB
  • 'Abra's Vision' is a happy rendering of Leigh Hunt's 'Abou Ben Adhem.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
  • Romantic familiar essay (e.g. William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt) and, on the other, of the career of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, prolific bibliographer and premier bibliomaniac, whose reception underlines the way in which the figure of the "bookman" helped to destabilize the divisions organizing the intellectual field. Article Abstracts
  • Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as "wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • A kind of lusciousness, like that of Keats when under the influence of Leigh Hunt, may here and there be observed. Alfred Tennyson
  • The Glove story is one of the best-known anecdotes in history; besides its French source, it has been told in German by Schiller, in English by Leigh Hunt, and has received thousands of allusory comments -- but always from one point of view. Robert Browning: How to Know Him
  • Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as “wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing.” The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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