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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), Romantic writer, editor, critic and contemporary of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, may be best remembered for being sentenced to prison for two years on charges of libel against the Prince Regent (1813-1815). He was also one of the most outspoken and effective journalists in the age of the French Revolution, and an innovative poet whose Story of Rimini(1816) is one of the great Romantic narrative poems.
Hunt was at the center of the literary and publishing world in London during the Romantic and Victorian early 19th century. His extensive correspondence reflects his intimate knowledge of literary, artistic, political and religious spheres in these key periods of British cultural history. Hunt eagerly penned thousands of letters, many of which survive. The Brewer-Leigh Hunt collection has nearly 1600 letters written to, from, or about Hunt. This digital collection contains a sampling of his correspondence from 1790-1858.
Reference URL: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/leighhunt
Project Home page: Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Archival Collection:
Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection
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