Leigh Hunt Life, Poetics and Politics (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)-[annotated edition]-[Nicholas Roe].pdf

Leigh Hunt
The life of the poet, critic and journalist Leigh Hunt spanned the Romantic
and Victorian eras. His influence in both periods was farreaching—Hunt
encouraged poets such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and ; his
reviews of the London stage opened the way for the theatrical criticism of
Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; his editorship of the Examiner (1808–22) was a
high point in English journalism; his campaigning on liberal issues (which
brought him a prison sentence) marks him out as one of the great reformers of
the age. His poetry initiated a playful counter-Romanticism; his Autobiography
(1850) is the first modern example of the genre.
This timely collection of essays by scholars and critics of international
standing explores Hunt’s controversial life, writings and politics over the full
length of his career, enabling readers to appreciate the brilliance and variety
of his achievements. Contents include:

• Leigh Hunt’s Foliage: a Cockney manifesto
• Suburb sinners: sex and disease in the Cockney School
• Cockney chivalry: Hunt, Keats and the aesthetics of excess
• Leigh Hunt and Romantic spontaneity
• Interviews and recollections, 1832–1921

William Hazlitt said that Leigh Hunt ‘improves upon acquaintance’. This
book introduces Hunt to new generations of readers and argues for the
recognition of Hunt’s vital significance to British intellectual and literary culture
in the Romantic and Victorian periods.
Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
His books include John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997) and, as editor,
Keats and History (1995) and Samuel Tailor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life (2001).
Routledge studies in romanticism

1 Keats’s Boyish Imagination
Richard Margraf Turley
2 Leigh Hunt
Life, poetics, politics
Edited by Nicholas Roe
3 Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene
Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Leigh Hunt

Life, poetics, politics
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