Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

Roe, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0712602240 / ISBN 13: 9780712602242

Published by Pimlico, 2005

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Synopsis:

Leigh Hunt is the forgotten giant of English Romanticism. The man Virginia Woolf called the “spiritual grandfather” of the modern world was descended from black Caribbeans and grew up a child of the American and French Revolutions. A poet and radical journalist, he threw off the shackles of the old order and campaigned tirelessly for Irish freedom and the abolition of slavery. Unwilling to view the Prince of Wales as an “Adonis in Loveliness,” Hunt was jailed for a “diabolical libel” that presented the prince as he was: a corpulent 50-year-old, sodden with drink and drugs. In prison, Hunt drew the homage of Lord Byron, and discovered the Romantic geniuses Keats and Shelley. Hunt’s own poetry glows with the sexual frankness that characterized all his relationships. Written with flair and brilliant imaginative insight, Fiery Heart is a sparkling portrait of Leigh Hunt and the English Romantics.

About the Author: Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at St Andrews University. He is the author of many books on Romanticism, including Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1990), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1998), and The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (2002).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt
Publisher: Pimlico
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good