Author : Leigh Hunt
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ISBN 13 : 9781034148937
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)
Book Synopsis Captain Sword and Captain Pen (Esprios Classics) by : Leigh Hunt
Download or read book Captain Sword and Captain Pen (Esprios Classics) written by Leigh Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Lord Tennyson to the public. Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, although in reality Hunt did not stand by the pyre, as portrayed. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.