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Biography James Henry Leigh Hunt

Poet Biography

Hunt's father was an American clergyman who came to settle in Southgate, Middlesex.

Leigh attended Christ's Hospital school in London, and published his first book of poetry, Juvenilia, at the age of seventeen. The following year he set up the weekly Examiner, with his brother John. This was the first of a series of journals he edited, which included the Reflector, Indicator, Companion, Tatler and London Journal.

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The influence of literary magazines was very strong at this time, and Hunt was responsible for recognising and promoting emerging writers of the calibre of Keats, Shelley and Tennyson. The popularity of his journalism was not without its drawbacks, however; in 1813 he and his brother were imprisoned for their attacks on the Prince Regent.

The two years he spent in jail gained Hunt the reputation of a Liberal martyr, but it also damaged his hea