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Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
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culture · English critic, essayist and poet (1784–1859) · journalist · poet · autobiographer · literary critic · translator · writer · also Leigh Hunt, Hunt
Born 19 October 1784 · Died 28 August 1859 · Q655213
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2026· 5 entries
The Guardian: Academic badass Amy Hunt sets sights on four golds and place in European history
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The Guardian: European Athletics Championship 2026: Hunt beats Adeleke and Asher-Smith to win women’s 200m gold – as it happened
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The Guardian: Britain’s Amy Hunt powers to emphatic 100m European gold and thrills home crowd
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BBC: The team behind Hodgkinson's golden rise and the hunt for a world record
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1859· 1 entry
Died 1859-08-28.
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1857· 1 entry
And an edition (London and New York) by his son, Thornton Hunt, appeared in 1860
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1855· 1 entry
Published his narrative poems, both original and translated, under the title Stories in Verse
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1850· 1 entry
Hunt published his Autobiography (3 vols
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1847· 1 entry
Lord John Russell set up a pension of £200 for Hunt
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1844· 1 entry
Mary Shelley and her son, on succeeding to the family estates, settled an annuity of £120 upon Hunt (Rossetti 1890)
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1840· 3 entries
“s edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work that furnished the occasion of Macaulay”
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Hunt's play Legend of Florence had a successful engagement at Covent Garden, which helped him financially
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Hunt wrote introductory notices to the work of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and to Edward Moxon's edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work that furnished the occ
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1835· 1 entry
A spirited contrast between the victories of peace and the victories of war, deserves to be ranked among his best poems
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1832· 2 entries
Hunt printed for private circulation Christianism, the work afterward published (1853) as The Religion of the Heart
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Hunt published by subscription a collected edition of his poems
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1828· 1 entry
Hunt published Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries
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1825· 1 entry
A lawsuit with one of his brothers made Hunt return to England
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1823· 1 entry
Byron left Italy for Greece, abandoning the quarterly
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1818· 2 entries
Hunt published a collection of poems entitled Foliage, followed in 1819 by Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne
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Hunt experienced more financial difficulties
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1816· 1 entry
Hunt published the poem Story of Rimini
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1813· 1 entry
(or 1812), The Examiner attacked Prince Regent George, describing his physique as corpulent; the British government tried the three Hunt brothers and sentenced them to two years in prison
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1809· 2 entries
In 1809, Leigh Hunt married Marianne Kent, whose parents were Thomas and Ann.
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Leigh Hunt married Marianne Kent, whose parents were Thomas and Ann
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1808· 2 entries
And 1809 and had added Blake's name to a list of so-called "quacks"
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Hunt left the War Office, where he had been working as a clerk, to become editor of The Examiner, a newspaper founded by his brother, John Hunt
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1807· 1 entry
A volume of theatre criticism, and a series of Classic Tales with critical essays on the authors
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1801· 1 entry
Under the title of Juvenilia, introducing him into British literary and theatrical society
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1784· 1 entry
Born 1784-10-19.
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