Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt ( * October 19, 1784 in Southgate, † August 28 1859 in Putney ) was an English writer.

Hunt had been a pupil of Christ's Hospital School in London several essays and juvenile poems in the Juvenile Preceptor print, worked on this a long time with a attorney and then received a state job, but he gave up again, to devote himself preferably of theatrical criticism.

From this period his excellent essays on theater and dramatic arts, in 1807 under the title appeared collected Critical essays on the performances of the London theaters. Relentlessly meeting in ecclesiastical and political circumstances and people, such as in the pamphlets: On the folly and danger of methodism (1809 ) and The reformist 's reply to in article on the state of parties in the Edinburgh Review (1809 ), he knew the wittiest introduce radicalism in London journalism, particularly in the Examiner jointly with his brother John in 1808 he founded and written in the radical Whig spirit.

Because of a libel ( libel (Latin libellus, " little book " ), among the Romans judicial application, also svw diatribe, therefore Libellist, defamatory writer ) on the Prince Regent, later to become King George IV, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, for which he avenged by his report of an information, filed ex officio by the Attorney general with observations. Later exclusively to poetry Turning, he founded by the real romantic poem The Story of Rimini ( 1816), his reputation as a poet; other poems, such as Foliage, The feast of the poets followed suit.

In 1822, he was with Lord Byron in Italy, the extremely liberal magazine The Liberal out, however, that made no luck; more larger He caused a sensation later with the book Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries (1828 ).

Also worth mentioning are the drama A legend of Florence (1840 ) and the narrative poem The Pallrey, a love - story of old times (1842 ), where the lush imagination, unusual fluency and picturesque representation gift of the author stand out brilliantly.

Other works are:

  • Classic tales (1833, 5 volumes); the comic poem
  • Captain Sword and Captain Pen ( 1835); the novels:
  • Sir Ralph Esher (1832 ) and
  • Imagination and fancy (1845 );
  • Men, Women and books (1847, 2 volumes );
  • The town (1848 );
  • Autobiography and reminiscences (1850, 3 volumes);
  • The fourth estate, a history of the English Press (1852 );
  • The religion of the heart ", giving its views on Natural Religion (1853 );
  • Notices of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh and Farquhar (1855 ).
  • The old Court Suburb, description of the London suburb of Kensington (1855, 2 volumes), including

Torquato Tasso's Aminta He also translated and acquired by its admirable modernization of Chaucer's great merit.

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