Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828) is the only biography he produced in a literary career extraordinary for its length and breadth. He outlived most of his Romantic colleagues and presided over the movement's assumption into...

Leigh Hunt was a central figure of the Romantic movement in England, but he was not, as he wished to be and knew he was not, one of its great poets. However, he produced, during the first sixty years of the nineteenth century, a large body of poetry in...

Leigh Hunt was known primarily in his own time as a poet, but today he is recognized more for his contributions in prose. He wrote critical articles on plays, operas, and literature; reviews of books; newspaper editorials; essays; a novel; and an...

When I was in sixth grade, I was fortunate to have a teacher who shared many of her school day memories with us, including reading us books she had enjoyed and having us memorize poems she had learned. One of those was "Abou Ben...

HIS name is thickly scattered through the biographies of others, chiefly Shelley, Byron, Keats, Lamb and Hazlitt. But as a man in his own right--admired, sought after and attacked in his day--Leigh Hunt has had little more than scholarly attention. After a long...

In the following essay, Reiman evaluates Hunt as one of the most influential Romantic writers—one who should be judged not just for his literary merits but also for his wide-ranging contributions to English culture.

In the following essay, Webb contends that Hunt used his Autobiography as an opportunity to revise earlier, more openly critical writings in order to express a generous, accepting philosophy.

In the following excerpt from his preface to the first collected edition of his poems, Hunt introduces his work by explaining his philosophy of poetry.