The Autobiography Of Leigh Hunt Volume 3

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330106952
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Vol. 1 of 3 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Vol. 1 of 3: With Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries In the summer of 1825 Leigh Hunt had been for three years a sojourner in Italy, whither he had gone at the invitation of Lord Byron and Shelley to edit that ill-fated magazine the Liberal. During these three years a series of disastrous events had occurred, all more or less bearing directly on Hunts life, and all described at considerable length and with much circumstantial detail in the following pages. The death of Shelley, the failure after four numbers of the Liberal, the unfriendly attitude taken up by Lord Byron, and his subsequent death, were sufficient in themselves to make it highly desirable for Hunt to return to England. Italy however had a great attraction for him, and he lingered on at Florence for fully three months, until September, 1825, when his return home became imperative, owing to the action of his brother John, who contended that Leigh Hunt, by his protracted absence, had forfeited his proprietary rights in the Examiner. One of the immediate obstacles to his return was that he was, nominally at any rate, without resources. The expenses of a journey to England were at that time considerable, and this prodigal son of letters had no means whatever wherewith to defray them. It was in these circumstances that Hunts old friend and admirer, Vincent Novello, made an arrangement with Henry Colburn, the publisher, for the advance of a sum of money on account of a book. The book thus arranged for was originally to have consisted of a collection of the authors scattered writings, with an autobiographical introduction. Hunt arrived in England in October, 1825, but no new book appeared bearing his name until 1828, when a large quarto volume was published with the title of Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries; with Recollections of the Authors Life and of his Visit to Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.