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The seer; or, common-places refreshed. 1840, 2 pts 1840–1, 1850,
Boston 1864, Boston 1878.
Heads of the people drawn by Kenny Meadows, with original essays.
1840. Hunt’s contributions are The monthly nurse and The
omnibus conductor.
Notice of the late Mr Egerton Webbe. 1840. Rptd from Morning
Chron.
The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized. 1841. Ed R. H. Horne
and Hunt, who modernized the Tales of the Squire, the Friar, and
the Manciple.
The palfrey; a love-story of old times. 1842.
Imagination and fancy; and an essay in answer to the question
‘What is poetry?’ 1844, 1845, New York 1845, London 1846, New
York 1850, New York 1852, London 1870, New York 1875, London
1891; ed E. Gosse 1907, 1910, 1995.
Wit and humour, with an illustrative essay. 1846, New York 1846,
Paris 1846, 3 vols New York 1846, London 1848, 1890, Folcroft PA
1972.
Stories from the Italian poets. 2 vols 1846, 1854. An excerpt entitled
Dante’s Divine comedy: the book and its story, 1903.
Men, women, and books, 2 vols 1847, 2 vols New York 1847, London
1852, New York 1855, London 1876, 1943.
A jar of honey from Mount Hybla. 1848, 1852, 1870, 1897.
The town; its memorable characters and events. 2 vols 1848, 1859,
1870, 1889, 1893, 1902, 1903, 1906; ed A. Dobson 1907 (WC).
The autobiography. 3 vols 1850, 2 vols New York 1850, London 1859,
1860, 1872, 1878, 1885, 1891; (‘revised by the author; with further
revision, and an introduction by his eldest son’); ed R. Ingpen 2
vols 1903, New York 1903; ed E. Blunden, London 1928 (WC); ed J.
E. Morpurgo 1949; ed from the ms in the Brewer Col by S. F. Fogle
as Leigh Hunt’s autobiography: the earliest sketches, Gainesville
FL 1959; New York 1965; in Italy and the English Romantics, ed
Ferruccio Terrani, Rimini 1984, 1985.
Table talk. 1851, New York 1879, 1882.
The religion of the heart. 1853, New York 1857. See Christianism,
above.
The old court suburb; or, memorials of Kensington. 2 vols 1855, 2
vols 1855 (enlarged), 1860; ed A. Dobson 2 vols 1902.
Stories in verse. Now first collected. 1855.
A saunter through the West End. 1861.
A day by the fire; and other papers hitherto uncollected. Ed J. E.
Babson 1870, Boston 1870.
The wishing-cap papers. Now first collected [by J. E. Babson]. Boston
1873, Boston 1874.
An answer to the question ‘What is Poetry’ including remarks on
versification. Ed Albert S. Cook 1893.
Coaches and coaching. 1908.
My books, an essay. Cambridge MA 1910, San Francisco 1949.
Ballads of Robin Hood. Ed L. A. Brewer, Cedar Rapids IA 1922.
The love of books. Ed L. A. and E. T. Brewer, Cedar Rapids IA 1923.
Rptd from Hunt’s My books, above.
Marginalia. Ed L. A. Brewer, Cedar Rapids IA 1926.
The old lady and the maid-servant. 1929.
Leigh Hunt’s ‘Rules for newspaper editors’, Wisdom for the wicked.
1930.
The inexhaustibility of the subject of Christmas. New York 1937.
Musical evenings or selections, vocal and instrumental. Ed D. R.
Cheney, Columbia MO 1964.
Leigh Hunt on eight sonnets of Dante. Ed R. Dunlop, Iowa City IA
1965.
A copy of verses written for the Bellmen. Oxford 1970.
Rondeau; Abou ben Adhem. Iowa City IA 1984.
Contributions to periodicals
No register has yet been made of Hunt’s very numerous and often anon contributions
to periodicals other than those which he edited. The following refer-
ences may be found useful so far as uncollected writings are concerned: papers
signed ‘Mr Town, Junior’ in Traveller (before 1805); theatre articles in
News (1805–7); papers in Statesman (1806); notices of plays in The Times
(Aug 1807); essays and verses in NMM (particularly 1825–37, and occasionally
until 1850), Atlas (c. 1828–30), True Sun, and Weekly True
Sun (c. 1833–4), Spectator 1858–9), Ainsworth Mag (1844), Bentley’s
Misc (1838), Edinburgh Rev (1816, 1841–51), Fraser’s Mag (1832,
1858–9), London and Westminster Rev (1837–9), Monthly Chron
(1838–9), and at intervals throughout his life Tait’s Edinburgh Mag
(1832–7); see Wellesley 5, 1989. See also the article in DNB, which points out
some of Hunt’s contributions to musical criticism.
The examiner: a Sunday paper. 1808–21. Hunt’s editorial work
ended in 1821, but he contributed until 1825.
The reflector: a quarterly magazine. 1810–11. Reissued as Reflector: a
collection of essays, 2 vols 1812.
The literary pocket-book: or, companion for the lover of nature and
art. 1818–22 (for 1819–23).
The indicator. 76 nos 13 Oct 1819–21 Mar 1821; 2 vols in 1 1822. Other
Indicators appeared in Literary Examiner 1823; no 89 and last in
NMM May 1832.
The liberal: verse and prose from the south. 1822–3 (4 nos, 2 vols);
rptd New York 1967.
The literary examiner. 1823. Probably ed John Hunt.
The companion. 9 Jan–23 July 1828 (nos 1–28); rptd New York
1967.
The chat of the week. 28 June–28 Aug 1830.
The tatler: a daily journal of literature and the stage. 4 Sep 1830–13
Feb 1832.
Leigh Hunt’s London journal. 2 vols 2 Apr 1834–26 Dec 1835; rptd
New York 1967.
The monthly repository. July 1837–Apr 1838; ed F. E. Mineka as The
dissidence of dissent, Chapel Hill NC 1944.
Leigh Hunt’s journal. 7 Dec 1850–29 Mar 1851. Weekly.
Anthologies etc
Classic tales, serious and lively; with critical essays. 5 vols 1806–7, 5
vols New York 1810, London 1895. Critical papers by Hunt on
Henry Mackenzie, Goldsmith, Henry Brooke, Voltaire and Dr
Johnson.
The masque of anarchy. A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley: now first
published, with a preface by Hunt. 1832.
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 1840, 1846, 1855,
1865.
The dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and
Farquhar. 1840, 1855.
One hundred romances of real life. 1843, 1846, 1888, Boston 1889 as
Romances of real life.
The foster brother: a tale of the war of Chiozza. 3 vols 1845, New
York 1864. By Thornton Hunt; ed Leigh Hunt.
A book for a corner. 2 vols 1849, 2 vols New York 1852, New York 1857,
London 1858.
Readings for railways. 1849; ser 2, 1853 (with J. B. Syme).
Beaumont and Fletcher. 1855. A selection.
The book of the sonnet. Ed Hunt and S. Adams Lee 2 vols Boston
1867, 2 vols London 1867, 2 vols New York 1885. Includes Hunt’s
essay on the sonnet.
Letters
Correspondence. Ed his eldest son 2 vols 1862, New York 1973.
Selections from Hunt’s correspondence with B. R. Haydon, Charles
Ollier and Southwood Smith. Ed S. R. T. Mayer, St James’s Mag
1874–5.
Mayer, S. R. T. Hunt and Lord Brougham; with original letters.
Temple Bar June 1876.
Six letters of Leigh Hunt addressed to W. W. Story, 1850–6. 1913.
Leigh Hunt’s letter on Hogg’s Life of Shelley. Ed L. A. Brewer, Cedar
Rapids IA 1927.
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