The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 5

This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Biographical Directory -- From Juvenilia (1801) -- ‘Retirement, or the Golden Mean’ -- ‘To Sensibility’ -- ‘The Negro Boy. A Ballad’ -- ‘Sonnet’ -- From The Reflector (1811) -- ‘Politics and Poetics, or The Desperate Situation of a Journalist Unhappily Smitten with the Love of Rhyme’ -- From The Examiner (1813) -- ‘Sonnet to T. B. Esq.’ -- ‘Sonnet to Hampstead’ -- From The Examiner (1814) -- ‘On the New Poet Laureat’ -- ‘The New Year’s Ode’ -- ‘A surprising new ballad on a most strange and wonderful creature now exhibiting in Westminster. Part I’ -- ‘Ode for the Spring of 1814’ -- ‘Sonnet to Hampstead. II’ -- ‘Sonnet to Hampstead. IV’ -- The Feast of the Poets (2nd edition, 1814) -- The Descent of Liberty: A Mask (1815) -- From The Examiner (1815) -- ‘Sonnet to Hampstead. VI’ -- Hunt 5-prelim.fm Page v Monday, May 12, 2003 3:13 -- ‘Sonnet to Hampstead. VII’ -- ‘National Song’ -- ‘Hampstead VII. Description of the Village’ -- ‘To Kosciusko. Who took part neither with Bonaparte in the height of his power, nor with the Allies in the height of theirs.’ -- -- ‘The Poets’ -- From The Examiner (1816) -- ‘To the Right Honourable Lord Byron on his Departure for Italy and Greece’ -- -- ‘On Hearing a Little Musical Box’ -- ‘Serenade, suggested by the music of Cherubini’s trio “Non -- negate, no”’ -- ‘Harry Brown to his Cousin Thomas Brown, Jun., Letter I’ -- ‘Harry Brown to his Cousin Tom, Jun., Letter II’ -- ‘Harry Brown’s Letters to his Friends. Letter III. To W. H., Esq.’ -- ‘Harry Brown’s Letters to his Friends. Letter IV. To Brown, Jun. Letter 3’ -- -- ‘Harry Brown’s Letters to his cousin Friends. Letter V. To his Thomas Brown, Jun. Letter 4.’ -- -- ‘Harry Brown’s Letters to his Friends. Letter VI. To B. F. Esq.’ -- ‘Harry Brown’s Letters to his Friends. Letter VII. To C. L.’ -- ‘A Dream’ -- ‘To T. L. H. Six Years Old, During a Late Sickness’ -- ‘To J. H., Four Years Old’ -- ‘To Benjamin Robert Haydon. Written in a blank leaf of his Copy of Vasari’s Lives of the Painters’ -- -- ‘Sonnet. Written on a Print (in the possession of Mr Haydon) from a Portrait of Raphael, painted by Himself when he was Young’ -- -- The Story of Rimini (1816) -- From The Examiner (1817) -- ‘To the Grasshopper and the Cricket’ -- From The Examiner (1818) -- ‘To H***** S*****’ -- From Foliage: or, Poems Original and Translated (1818) -- ‘The Nymphs’ -- ‘Fancy’s Party. A Fragment’ -- ‘Song. Written to be set to music by Vincent Novello’ -- ‘To Mrs L. H. On Her Modelling a Bust of the Author’ -- ‘To Miss K. Written on a Piece of Paper which happened to be Headed with a Long List of Trees’ -- -- ‘To Percy Shelley, on the Degrading Notions of Deity’ -- ‘To the Same’ -- ‘To Henry Robertson, John Gattie, and Vincent Novello, not keeping their appointed hour’ -- -- ‘To John Keats’ -- ‘On receiving a crown of ivy from the same’ -- ‘On the Same’ -- ‘To John Hamilton Reynolds, on his lines upon The Story of Rimini’ -- ‘To —— ——, M. D. On his giving me a lock of Milton’s hair’ -- ‘To the Same, on the same Subject’ -- ‘To the Same, on the same Occasion’ -- ‘The Nile’ -- ‘To Thomas Stothard, R.A.’ -- From The Examiner (1819) -- ‘Account of the Movements of the Come-eat. By the Gastronomer Royal’ -- ‘The Manchester Yeoman. Indignatione et rhythmis exuberans, Skeltonizat Harry Brown’ -- -- ‘The Chary Manchester Chairman, or Bench’s Loyal Burden: Shewing how to Protect a Short-hand Writer and Crown-Witness with a and Stretched-out Arm’ -- -- -- ‘The Lord Mayor and the Butcher; or Here’s a Block for your Cuts’ -- ‘Reverend Magistracy. A Caricature, Very Like’ -- ‘Chopping Logic’ -- ‘A New Chaunt, written expressly for those truly talking the Head Choristers in St Stephen’s Chapel; by their Devoted and Humble Beadsman, Harry Brown’ -- -- -- ‘The Intelligence of the Debates Vindicated. By Harry Brown’ -- From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1819) -- ‘Hero and Leander’ -- ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ -- ‘The Panther’ -- From The Examiner (1820) -- ‘Memory and Want of Memory or Rather No than Yes’ -- ‘Non mi Ricordo’ -- ‘An Excellent Scotch Parody. To be sung by all loyal and loving North Britons, from Maiden Kirk to John O’ Groats’ -- -- ‘Joe-Miller “Epigram” of The Courier’ -- ‘Song and Chorus in the new School for Scandal’ -- ‘Scenes and Songs in the new Beggar’s Opera’ -- ‘Scenes and Songs in the new Beggar’s Opera. Continued’ -- ‘The Ne-Plus-Ultra of Seamen’ -- From The Indicator (1820) -- ‘Translation of Tasso’s Celebrated Ode to the Golden Age, beginning, – “O bella eta dell’ oro”’ -- -- ‘Songs of Robin Hood’ -- From The Examiner (1821) -- ‘A Lesson for Kings’ -- ‘My Lady Mary Borough. An excellent new song by Mr Harry Brown, sung at the Coronation Dinners’ -- -- ‘A-hanging we will go. A New Song by Mr Harry Brown, sung by the R******r and C****n S*****T at the Judges’ Dinners’ -- -- ‘A New Lancashire Ballad, sung by Parson Blacow on his way back from the Assizes, after dinner’ -- -- Explanatory Notes.

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