Leigh Hunt
Subtitle: life, poetics, politics
By: edited by Nicholas Roe
Series: Routledge studies in romanticism -- 3; Routledge studies in romanticism -- 3.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780203407059
Subjects: History; Journalists; Critics; Intellectual life; English Authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; Biography; Political and social views; Liberalism; European
Description: This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America Romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over the full length of his career.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations and a note on texts; Introduction: Leigh Hunt's track of radiance; Leigh Hunt: some early matters; Leigh Hunt and Charles Cowden Clarke, 1812 18; Leigh Hunt's Foliage: a Cockney manifesto; Suburb sinners: sex and disease in the Cockney School; Leigh Hunt's aesthetics of intimacy; Cockney chivalry: Hunt, Keats and the aesthetics of excess; 'Even now while I write': Leigh Hunt and Romantic spontaneity; Leigh Hunt and the poetics and politics of the Fancy