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The poet in his dungeon.(The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt)(Book review)
There are certain people who have exerted considerable significance in the history of letters without having been great writers themselves: Gertrude Stein, for instance, and in our own era, George Plimpton. They have served as a species of facilitator, encouraging young talent, gathering writers around them, creating a cross-germination of ideas and styles. Such a person was James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Of his more than eighty published works, only two short poems remain in general currency: "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Jenny Kissed Me," both of which turn up frequently in popular anthologies. The rest of his poetry has turned to dust, for it exemplifies the superfluities ...
- Anthony Holden. The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh...
- Magazine article from: Dickens Quarterly Chittick, Kathryn March 1, 2006 700+ words
...Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt--Poet, Revolutionary, and the...Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt. London: Pimlico, 2005. Pp...Nicholas Roe, in his biography of Leigh Hunt, Fiery Heart, speculates that Hunt...
- Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of His Major...
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Jackson, Emily A. Bernhard September 22, 2006 700+ words
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- English radical; Leigh Hunt.(Two new biographies of Leigh Hunt)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 29, 2005 700+ words
...after and attacked in his day--Leigh Hunt has had little more than scholarly...Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt. By Nicholas Roe. The Wit in the Dungeon: The Life of Leigh Hunt. By Anthony Holden.
- Eleanor M. Gates. Leigh Hunt: a Life in Letters.
- Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism Jones, Steven E. December 22, 2001 700+ words
...693. $44.95. Whether or not Leigh Hunt knew everyone that was anyone in...volume edition of 1862 edited by Leigh Hunt's eldest son, Thornton Hunt...specialized Luther A. Brewer edition, My Leigh Hunt Library (1938). Gates's selection...
- Staging hope: genre, myth, and ideology in the dramas of the Hunt circle.(Leigh...
- Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language Cox, Jeffrey N. September 22, 1996 700+ words
...While this situation--that of Leigh Hunt who was in prison at the time of...as part of The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. The Descent stands as a first attempt...particularly true of the group around Leigh Hunt which included not only Keats, the...
- General Mills' Leigh Hunt reigns over grain: regular instrument checking...
- Magazine article from: Laboratory Equipment Malik, Tariq January 1, 2004 700+ words
Leigh Hunt knows about grain. He works with it everyday...samples to determine their starch properties. Hunt, 42, joined Minneapolis, Minnesota-based...and Regulations Operations (QRO). But Hunt had grain on the brain even before he joined...
- Hunt, Leigh: The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt--Poet,...
- Magazine article from: Biography Marshall, Megan January 1, 2006 700+ words
Hunt, Leigh The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt--Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last...Roe, 'Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt.' Megan Marshall. NYTBR, Jan. 1, 2006...
- Nonviolence and nationalism in Leigh Hunt's early liberal rhetoric.
- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose Born, Daniel March 22, 1996 700+ words
A survey of Leigh Hunt's prose dating from his Examiner period through his later career reveals...constellation of sometimes disparate forces I want to reconsider the career of Leigh Hunt. His activity on behalf of what Peter L. Thorslev, Jr. denotes...
Source: HighBeam Research, The poet in his dungeon.(The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life...