Leigh Hunt
English critic, essayist and poet (1784–1859) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
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Born | James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-10-19)19 October 1784 |
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
(m. 1808; died 1857) |
Children | 10, including Thornton Leigh Hunt |
Relatives |
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Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. 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.
Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.[1]