Fiery Heart : The First Life of Leigh Hunt

Roe, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0712602240 / ISBN 13: 9780712602242

Published by Penguin Random House, 2005

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiery Heart : The First Life of Leigh Hunt
• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712602240
• ISBN 13: 9780712602242
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.327 pounds

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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).