This article is about the 19th-century English poet and essayist. For other uses, see Leigh Hunt (disambiguation).
Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt; portrait by Benjamin Haydon
Born
James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784-10-19)19 October 1784
Southgate, London, England
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
John Hunt (brother)
Elizabeth Kent (sister-in-law)
Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (grand-niece)
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
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]
^Dickens, Charles (9 January 1860). "Mr. Dickens on Leigh Hunt". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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