Leigh Hunt is perhaps best known today for two short poems, “Jenny Kissed Me” and “Abou Ben Adhem”. In his time, he was known as a leading figure in the Romantic movement, a friend and mentor of Keats and Shelley, a groundbreaking drama critic, the editor of the leading liberal journal of the day (the Examiner), and a political writer whose criticisms of the Prince Regent led to his imprisonment for libel. He also became known in his later years as the …
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Citation: Goldfarb, Sheldon. "Leigh Hunt". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 March 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2264, accessed 19 April 2025.]
