Select Bibliography

1801 Juvenilia; or, a Collection of Poems (3rd edn. 1802, 4th edn. 1803)
1816 The Story of Rimini, a Poem (3rd edn. 1819)
1819 The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (further volumes 1832, 1844, 1862)
1818 Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; with Recollections of the Author’s Life, and of his Visit to Italy
1835 Captain Sword and Captain Pen, a Poem (2nd edn. 1839, 3rd edn. 1849)
1840 A Legend of Florence. A Play. In Five Acts.
1844 Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets… and an Essay in answer to the Question ‘What is Poetry?’
1850 The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. 3 vols.
1851 Table Talk To which are added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift
1853 The Religion of the Heart. A Manual of Faith and Duty.
1857 The Prose Works of Leigh Hunt 4 vols. American edn.
1862 The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt Edited by his Eldest Son. 2 vols.

 

Some periodicals edited by Hunt:

 

1808– 21 The Examiner, a Sunday Paper
1819–21 The Indicator. Weekly
1822–23 The Liberal. 4 Nos.
1830–32 The Tatler a Daily Journal of Literature and the Stage
1850–51 Leigh Hunt’s Journal. Weekly

 

Recent Editions:

 

1891 Essays and Poems ed. R.B. Johnson 1923
1923 The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt ed. H.S. Milford
1949 The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt ed. J.E. Morpurgo
1949 Leigh Hunt’s Dramatic Criticism eds. Lawrence H. & Carolyn W. Houtchens
1956 Leigh Hunt’s Literary Criticism eds. Lawrence H. & Carolyn W. Houtchens
1959 Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography: the earliest sketches ed. Stephen F. Fogle
1962 Leigh Hunt’s Political and Occasional Essays eds. Lawrence H. & Carolyn W. Houtchens

 

Biography:

 

1930 Leigh Hunt and His Circle Edmund Blunden
1985 Immortal Boy, a Portrait of Leigh Hunt Ann Blainey

Selection from Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography, his most substantial prose work, has been limited here, as it merits either a reissue of Professor Morpurgo’s edition of 1949 (Cresset Press, London), or a fresh one.