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Leigh Hunt

1784–1859

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) was an English poet, essayist and editor, best remembered today as the friend and champion of Keats and Shelley. As editor of The Examiner he was imprisoned from 1813 to 1815 for libelling the Prince Regent, and he received visitors in his cell.

His own poems range from the narrative Story of Rimini (1816) to light verse, sonnets and short lyrics. “Abou Ben Adhem” and “Jenny Kiss’d Me” are the two that most readers know.

Major Works (1)

  1. The Story of Rimini — Narrative poem, 1816

Poems (101)

  1. Abou Ben Adhem
  2. The Glove and the Lions
  3. Jenny Kiss'd Me
  4. To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
  5. The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
  6. To Kosciusko
  7. On a Lock of Milton's Hair
  8. Quiet Evenings
  9. The Nile
  10. Mahmoud
  11. Sudden Fine Weather
  12. Thoughts of the Avon, on the 28th of September, 1817
  13. To T. L. H., Six Years Old, During a Sickness
  14. To J. H., Four Years Old
  15. A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's "Choice"
  16. Christmas
  17. The Lover of Music to His Piano-Forte
  18. A Hymn to Bishop St. Valentine
  19. Power and Gentleness
  20. Paganini
  21. Our Cottage
  22. Reflections of a Dead Body
  23. An Angel in the House
  24. The Curate and His Bishop
  25. The Panther
  26. The Jovial Priest's Confession
  27. The Nun
  28. The Feast of the Poets
  29. Corso and Emilia
  30. Hero and Leander
  31. Ballads of Robin Hood
  32. Death and the Ruffians
  33. Cambus Khan
  34. The Gentle Armour
  35. The Fancy Concert
  36. Blue-Stocking Revels; or, The Feast of the Violets
  37. Captain Sword and Captain Pen
  38. The Palfrey
  39. Godiva
  40. Jaffar
  41. The Bitter Gourd
  42. The Inevitable
  43. Wallace and Fawdon
  44. Kilspindie
  45. The Trumpets of Doolkarnein
  46. To Henry Robertson, John Gattie, and Vincent Novello, Not Keeping Their Appointed Hour
  47. To My Wife, on Modelling My Bust
  48. To the Author of "Ion"
  49. Politics and Poetics
  50. Morgiana in England
  51. Epistle to William Hazlitt
  52. Epistle to Barron Field
  53. Epistle to Charles Lamb
  54. Hearing Music
  55. On Hearing a Little Musical Box
  56. Wealth and Womanhood
  57. Alter et Idem
  58. To May
  59. To June
  60. Lines Written in the Album of Rotha Quillinan
  61. Love-Letters Made of Flowers
  62. Songs and Chorus of the Flowers
  63. Songs of the Flowers
  64. Bodryddan
  65. To the Queen
  66. To the Infant Princess Royal
  67. Three Visions
  68. Lines on the Birth of the Princess Alice
  69. Right and Might
  70. Doctor Ban; or, Question for Question
  71. Dream within Dream; or, A Dream in Heaven; or, Evil Minimized
  72. Ode to the Sun
  73. Reappearance of Achilles on the Field of Battle
  74. Priam Rebuking His Sons
  75. Priam at the Feet of Achilles
  76. Mercury Going to the Cave of Calypso
  77. The Infant Hercules and the Serpents
  78. Greek Pretenders to Philosophy
  79. Cupid Swallowed
  80. Catullus's Return Home to the Peninsula of Sirmio
  81. Epitaph on Erotion
  82. Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
  83. Plato's Archetypal Man
  84. Paulo and Francesca
  85. Ugolino and His Children
  86. Petrarch's Contemplations of Death in the Bower of Laura
  87. Friends and Foes
  88. Angelica and Medoro
  89. A Deprecation of the Name of John
  90. Bacchus in Tuscany
  91. Lazy Corner; or, Bed versus Business
  92. Ode to the Golden Age
  93. The Debt of the Giuli Tre
  94. Portrait of Himself
  95. On the Laugh of Madame d'Albret
  96. A Love-Lesson
  97. The Battle of the Books
  98. Epitaph on an Englishman
  99. Abel and Mabel; or, Wise and Foolish
  100. Love and War
  101. Love and Age

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