1st Edition

Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828

By Michael Eberle-Sinatra Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period. He was not only a facilitator - in his support for the poetry of Shelley and Keats for example - but was also a major contributor in his own right to the literary and political world of the nineteenth century.... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction  1. Theatrical Criticism and The News  2. The Feast of the Poets  3. Dante and the Politics of Language  4. The Liberal.  Epilogue.  Bibliography.  Index

Biography

Michael Eberle-Sinatra is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Montreal.

'Michael Eberle-Sinatra's highly accessible study is a worthy contribution to the recent rise of interest in the work on Leigh Hunt.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840