Leigh Hunt
Sign in to saveBritish critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1784-01-01
- Died
- 1859-01-01
- Works
- 148
Top works
- Amyntas
- Stories from the Italian Poets
- Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's Introduction and Postscript; Volume 1
- Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's Introduction and Postscript; Volume 2
- The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 83
- Total plays
- 158
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing
· 1994 · cited 13,816x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,771x
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Key facts
- Born
- James Henry Leigh Hunt , ( 1784-10-19 ) 19 October 1784, Southgate , London , England
- Died
- 28 August 1859 (1859-08-28) (aged 74), Putney , London, England
- Burial place
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Education
- Christ's Hospital , Newgate Street, London
- Spouse
- Marianne Kent ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1808 ; died 1857 )
- Children
- 10, including Thornton Leigh Hunt
- Relatives
- John Hunt (brother) Robert Hunt (brother) Elizabeth Kent (sister-in-law) Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (grand-niece)
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1784
- Died
- 1 January 1859
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Q254906
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Southgate
- Place of death
- Putney
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Christ's Hospital
- Languages spoken
- Italian
Article
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, with his brother John Hunt. 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 Tennyson to the public.
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1784 births1859 deaths18th-century English people19th-century English dramatists and playwrights19th-century English essayists19th-century English journalists19th-century English male journalists19th-century English memoirists19th-century English novelists19th-century English poetsBritish theatre criticsBurials at Kensal Green Cemetery