James Henry Leigh Hunt

(1784-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 NRA: Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859) Essayist and Poet DNB: Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784-1859), poet, journalist, and literary critic LBT ID: LeHunt VIAF ID: 54166412 LOC ID: n80032721	B/BAP: 1784-10-19 DIED: 1859-08-28
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet, journalist, and man of letters; editor of The Examiner and The Liberal; friend of Byron, Keats, and Shelley.
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 “Distressing Circumstances in High Life [Byron's Separation]” in The Examiner (21 April 1816) 247-50 “To Lord Byron on his Departure for Italy and Greece” in The Examiner (28 April 1816) 266-67 “Young Poets” in The Examiner (1 December 1816) 761-62 “Death and Funeral of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (13 April 1817) 236-37 “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 “Mr. Keats’s Poems &c.” in The Examiner (1 June 1817) 345 “Mr. Keats’s Poems &c. Continued” in The Examiner (6 July 1817) 428-29 “Mr. Keats’s Poems &c. Concluded” in The Examiner (13 July 1817) 443-44 “Z” in The Examiner (14 December 1817) 788 “To Horace Smith” in The Examiner (4 January 1818) 9 “The Editor of the Quarterly Review” in The Examiner (14 June 1818) 378-79 “[On Political Calumny]” in The Examiner (28 June 1818) 411 “The Quarterly Review. Mr. Keats” in The Examiner (11 October 1818) 648-49 “The Living Poets” in The Examiner (25 October 1818) 678 “Mr. Hazlitt’s Letter to Mr. Gifford” in The Examiner (7 March 1819) 156 “Mr. Hazlitt’s Letter to Mr. Gifford (Concluded)” in The Examiner (14 March 1819) 171-73 “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam” in The Examiner (26 September 1819) 620-21 “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam (Continued)” in The Examiner (3 October 1819) 635-36 “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam (Concluded)” in The Examiner (10 October 1819) 652-53 “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam (Concluded)” in The Examiner (10 October 1819) 652-53 “[Farewell to John Keats]” in The Indicator (20 September 1820) 399-400 “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 2.—Lord Byron” in The Examiner (29 July 1821) 472-74 “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 3—Mr. Campbell” in The Examiner (12 August 1821) 506-08 “Croker’s Mountings” in The Examiner (19 August 1821) 522 “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 4—Mr. Coleridge” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 664-67 “Blackwood’s Magazine, John Bull, and the Beacon” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 657-59 “On the Quarterly Review” in The Examiner (9 June 1822) 355-57 “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Examiner (14 November 1824) 722-24 “Dr. Southey and Lord Byron” in The Examiner (19 December 1824) 802 Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) “Preface” in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries 2 vols (London: Colburn, 1828) “Appendix” in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries 2 vols (London: Colburn, 1828) “Lord Byron and Mr. Leigh Hunt” in Morning Chronicle (25 January 1828) “Lord Byron and Mr. Leigh Hunt” in Morning Chronicle (21 January 1828) “The Reader. Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Tatler 1 (4 September 1830) 3-4 “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt” in The Tatler 2 (11 January 1831) 441-43 “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (12 January 1831) 445-46 “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (13 January 1831) 449-51 “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (14 January 1831) 453-55 “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Concluded]” in The Tatler 2 (15 January 1831) 457-58