Leigh Hunt Life, Poetics, Politics [Hardcover]

Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over the full length of his career, arguing for the recognition of Hunt's importance to British intellectual and literary culture in the Romantic period.1. Nicholas RoeIntroduction: Leigh Hunt's Track of Radiance
2. Nicholas RoeLeigh Hunt: Some Early Matters
3. John BarnardLeigh Hunt and Charles Cowden Clarke 1812-1818
4. Jeffrey N. CoxLeigh Hunt's Foliage: A Cockney Manifesto
5. Elizabeth JonesSuburb Sinners: Sex and Disease in the Cockney School
6. Jane StablerLeigh Hunt's Aesthetics of Intimacy
7. Greg KucichCockney Chivalry: Hunt, Keats and the Aesthetics of Excess
8. Michael O'Neill'Even Now While I Write': Leigh Hunt and Romantic Spontaneity
9. Jeffrey C. RobinsonLeigh Hunt and the Poetics and Politics of the Fancy
10. Kim WheatleyConceiving Disgust: Leigh Hunt, William Gifford and the Quarterly Review
11. Rodney Stenning Edgecombe'Seeing with Final Eyes': Leigh Hunt, Design, Immortality
12. Nicholas RoeLeigh Hunt: Interviews and Recollections, 1932-1921Nicholas Roeis Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His books include John Keats and the Culture of Dissent(1997) and, as editor, Keats and History(1995) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life(2001).