Author:James Henry Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784–1859)

James Henry Leigh Hunt

Works

• Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets (1844) (external scan)
• Wit and humour, selected from the English poets; with an illustrative essay, and critical comments (1846) (external scan)
• Stories from the Italian Poets (1846)
• A jar of honey from Mount Hybla (1848) (external scan)
• The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, containing many pieces now first collected 1849 (transcription project)
• Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas
• A saunter through the West end (1861)
• The Wishing-cap Papers (1874) (external scan)

Essays

• Deaths of Little Children
• On the Realities of Imagination

Poems

• The Story of Rimini (1816) (transcription project)
• The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, containing many pieces now first collected (1844) (external scan)
• Captain Sword and captain Pen, a poem (1849) (external scan)
• Abou Ben Adhem
• The Glove and the Lions
• Jenny kiss'd Me
• The Nile

As translator

• (tr.) Amyntas, A Tale of the Woods (1820), by Torquato Tasso
• "Cupid Swallowed" (1836), by Julianus the Egyptian

As editor

• Leigh Hunt’s London Journal (1834–1835)

Works about Hunt

• Letter to Leigh Hunt, May 10, 1817 by John Keats
• Mr. T. Moore.-Mr. Leigh Hunt, in The Spirit of the Age (1825), by William Hazlitt
• The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: (1860) (external scan)
• "Hunt, James Henry Leigh," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hunt, James Henry Leigh," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Hunt, James Henry Leigh," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)