Ralph Chaplin
American writer, artist and labor activist
Leigh Hunt
British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
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.
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Marianne Kent Hunt
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Vincent Novello Leigh Hunt
Thornton Leigh Hunt
John Horatio Leigh Hunt
Mary Florimel Leigh Hunt
Jacintha Shelley Leigh Hunt Hunt
Percy Bysshe Shelley Leigh Hunt
Swinburne Percy Leigh Hunt
Julia Trelawny Leigh Hunt
Henry Sylvan Leigh Hunt
Arabella Leigh Hunt
About the Leigh Hunt
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.
He may be best remembered for being sentenced to prison for two years on charges of libel against the Prince Regent (1813-1815). The witty poem he wrote and published in the Examiner is a delight to read!
Hunt’s presence at Shelley’s funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Edouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House.
14 Quotes by Leigh Hunt
- 1.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 2.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 3.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 4.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 5.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 6.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 7.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 8.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 9.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 10.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 11.
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 12.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 13.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
- 14.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh HuntBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)