Poetry
Leigh Hunt was born in Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States. Educated at Christ''s Hospital from 1791 to 1799 but a speech impediment, later cured, prevented his going to university. "For some time after I left school," he says, "I did nothing but visit my school-fellows, haunt the book-stalls and write verses." His first poems were published in 1801 und...
Leigh Hunt was born in Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States. Educated at Christ''s Hospital from 1791 to 1799 but a speech impediment, later cured, prevented his going to university. "For some time after I left school," he says, "I did nothing but visit my school-fellows, haunt the book-stalls and write verses." His first poems were published in 1801 und...
