Fiery Heart
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 see t...
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 see t...
