About the Book
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:
Volume 1: Periodical Essays, 1805-14 General introduction; Editorial Principles; Chronology; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the text; Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; Selections from 'Theatricals', The News (1805-7); 'Prospectus', 'On Periodical Essays', 'On Party Spirit', 'Character of Napoleon and Present State of the Continent', 'Necessity of Peace to our Indian Possessions', 'An Attempt to Shew the Folly and Danger of Methodism', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'On the Rejection of the Catholic Petition', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'A Letter of Strong Advice to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on His Character and Connections', 'Military Delinquency', 'Preface', The Examiner (1808); 'On the Prosecution Commenced by the Duke of York Against this Paper', 'On the Revived Cry of Jacobinism', 'Dinner in Honour of "The Immortal Pitt"', 'The Sense of the People', 'Newspaper Principle', selections from 'Theatrical Examiner', 'The Morning Post', 'Ministers versus The Examiner', The Examiner (1809); 'On the New-Year's Ode', 'State of Parties - Edinburgh Review', 'Prospectus to The Reflector', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Spanish South America', 'Remarks on the Behaviour of Mr Cobbett Before and After His Late Trial', 'King's Illness', The Examiner and The Reflector (1810); 'Debates on the Regency', 'Two Letters To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Respecting the Reformists and his Prospects of Government', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'The Courier - Military Flogging', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Negro Civilization', 'On the Present and Future Character of the Prince Regent', 'Dinner in Commemoration of the Acquittal of Messrs Tooke and Hardy', 'The Prince Regent and the Journals', The Examiner and The Reflector (1811); 'Preface', 'Letter of the Prince Regent', 'The Prince on St Patrick's Day', 'A Day by the Fire', 'The Prince versus The Examiner', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Henry Hunt Esq Candidate for Bristol', 'Luddite Conspiracy', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Trial of The Examiner', The Examiner and The Reflector (1812); 'State of The Civilised World 1812', 'Sentence Against The Examiner (part I)', 'Sentence Against The Examiner (part II)', 'Lancasterian Institutions for the Education of the Poor', 'Office of Poet Laureate', 'New Poet Laureate', 'Sir Humphrey Davy and His Visit to Paris', 'Postscript', The Examiner (1813); 'The New Year's Ode', 'Royal and Military Claims upon our Respect', 'Political Patronage', 'The Joy of the Public - Bonaparte', 'Opening of the Congress', 'Character of the Congress at Vienna, and Present Feelings of Bonaparte', 'New Prospectus of The Examiner', The Examiner (1814); Explanatory Notes Volume 2: Periodical Essays, 1815-21 Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; 'Theatrical Examiner', selections from 'The Round Table', 'Sketches of the Performers', 'Departure of the Proprietors of this Paper from Prison', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Bonaparte in France Again', 'London', 'Victory of Waterloo - Bonaparte's Abdication', 'Gloomy State of Things in France', 'Account of the Remarkable Rise and Downfall of the Late Great Kan of Tartary', 'A Few English Reflections Before The Opening Of Parliament', The Examiner (1815); 'Heaven Made a Party to Earthly Disputes - Mr Wordsworth's Sonnets On Waterloo', 'Distressing Circumstance in High Life', 'Bonaparte in St Helena 1', 'Young Poets', 'Disturbances in the Metropolis', The Examiner (1816); 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Impossibility of the Continuance of the Present State of Things in Europe', 'On the Spirit of Money-Getting, and on Retrenchment', 'On Pantomime - Continued From a Late Paper', 'Attack on the Prince Regent, and a Word or Two of Plain Comment Upon It', 'On the Proposed Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act', 'Death and Funeral of the Late Mr Southey', 'Revolution in the Brazils, and Conquest of Chili', 'Poems by John Keats', 'Informers', 'Mr Keats's Poems, &C - (Continued)', 'Mr Keats's Poems, &C - (Concluded)', 'Mr Owen's Proposed Improvements of Society', 'Death of the Princess Charlotte', The Examiner (1817); 'Liberty of the Press', 'Z', selection from 'Literary Notices. No 39', 'Theatrical Examiner No 310', 'On the Employment of Children in Manufactories', 'Shocking Consequences of the Attempts of Bigotry to Re-establish itself', 'Literary Notices No 44', The Examiner (1818); 'State of the World', 'Assassination of Kotzebue', 'Catholic Emancipation', 'Literary Notices. No 54', 'Ex-Officio Informations against Richard Carlile', 'Imputed Ignorance of the Lower Orders', 'Disturbances at Manchester', 'Liberation of Hunt - his Examination, &C', 'The Quarterly Review, and Revolt of Islam', 'The Quarterly Review, and Revolt of Islam [Concluded from last week]', 'The Indicator No I', 'The Indicator - Social Genealogy', The Examiner and The Indicator (1819); 'Non-Appearance of the Laureat to Celebrate the National Happiness', 'The Indicator - Spirit of the Ancient Mythology', 'Alleged Conspirators in Cato-Street', 'Theatrical Examiner', 'Execution of the Conspirators', 'The Indicator -La Belle Dame Sans Mercy', 'The Indicator - "Of Sticks"', 'The Indicator - A Now, Descriptive of A Hot Day', 'The Indicator - The Destruction of the Cenci Family, and Tragedy on that Subject', 'The Indicator - The Stories of Lamia, The Pot of Basil, The Eve of St Agnes, &C As Told by Mr Keats', 'Lord Castlereagh's Attack on the Examiner', 'The Indicator - The Stories of Lamia, The Pot of Basil, The Eve of St Agnes, &C As Told by Mr Keats (continued)', 'Meeting of the House of Lords and the Queen', 'The Indicator - The Return of Autumn', 'The Examiner to his Readers - Brief but Sufficing Answer to all the Ministerial Papers for a Month to Come', The Examiner and The Indicator (1820); 'Trial and Defence of Mr John Hunt and Verdict Found Against him', 'The Indicator - The Indicator's Farewell', 'Literary Notices No 47', 'Death of Napoleon Bonaparte', 'Sketches of the Living Poets No 2 - Lord Byron', 'Proposed Royal Academy of Literature', 'Sketches of the Living Poets No 4 - Mr Coleridge', The Examiner and The Indicator (1821); Explanatory notes Volume 3: Periodical Essays 1822-38 Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; 'Preface', 'Rhyme and Reason', 'Advertisement to the Second Volume', The Liberal (1822-3); 'The Indicator, No LXXVII', 'The Indicator, No LXXVIII', The Literary Examiner (1823); 'Coffee-Houses and Smoking', The New Monthly Magazine (1826); 'Books, Politics, and Theatricals', 'Bad Weather', 'Remarks Suggested by the Perusal of Mr Hazlitt's "Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things"', 'Further Remarks Suggested by the Perusal of Mr Hazlitt's "Plain Speaker"', 'On the Graces and Anxieties of Pig-Driving', 'Progress of Liberal Opinion, and what Becomes the Highest Ambition Accordingly', 'Specimens of British Poetesses', The Companion (1828); 'Prospectus', 'The Late King. Different Accounts of him, and an Attempt to Estimate his Real Character', 'Theatricals', selections from 'The Politician', 'Album Verses, With a Few Others. By Charles Lamb', The Chat of the Week (1830); 'To the Readers of The Chat of the Week', 'Extraordinary Sign of the Times', 'Mr Hazlitt and the Utilitarians', selections from 'The Play-Goer', selections from 'The Reader', 'Christmas Day', selections from 'Notices of New Books', 'Sir Walter Scott versus Reform', 'Success of Periodicals', 'Mr Moxon's Publications', 'Modern Women', 'Eugene Aram - Mr Bulwer's New Novel", The Tatler (1830-2); selections from 'The Wishing Cap', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1833); selections from 'True Sun Daily Review', The True Sun (1833); selections from 'The Townsman', The Weekly True Sun (1833); 'Address', 'Twelfth Night', 'Charles Lamb', 'Lodore', 'Chat with the Magazines', 'Coleridge's Table_Talk', 'Browning's Paracelsus', Leigh Hunt's London Journal (1834-5); 'Editor's Address to the Reader', 'Lord Durham and the Reformers', 'Explanation and Retrospection. - The Examiner Twenty Years Ago', The Monthly Repository (1837); selections from 'Mr Carlyle's Lectures', 'Conclusion of Mr Carlyle's Lectures', 'The Literary Examiner', The Examiner (1838); Explanatory Notes Volume 4: Literary Essays, 1844-67 Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; 'Preface', 'An Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"', 'Selections from Spenser, with Critical Notice': 'Archimago's Hermitage, and the House of Morpheus', 'The Cave of Mammon and Garden of Persephone', 'A Gallery of Pictures from Spenser'; 'Selections from Marlowe, with Critical Notice': 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'; 'Selections from Shakespeare, with Critical Notice'; 'Selections from Ben Jonson, with Critical Notice'; 'Selections from Beaumont and Fletcher, with Critical Notice': 'Melancholy'; 'Selections from Milton, with Critical Notice': 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso'; 'Selections from Coleridge, with Critical Notice': 'Kubla Khan', 'Work without Hope'; 'Selections from Shelley, with Critical Notice': 'To a Skylark'; 'Selections from Keats, with Critical Notice': 'The Eve of St Agnes', Imagination and Fancy (1844); Preface; 'An Illustrative Essay on Wit and Humour'; 'Selections from Chaucer, with Critical Notice': 'Characters of Pilgrims'; 'Selections from Shakespeare, with Critical Notice', 'Selections from Ben Jonson, with Critical Notice': 'Description of Holland'; 'Selections from Butler, with Critical Notice': 'Description of Hudibras and His Equipments'; 'Selections from Dryden, with Critical Notice': 'Character of Lord Shaftesbury'; 'Selections from Pope, with Critical Notice': 'Characters and Ruling Passions: Character of Addison'; 'Selections from Swift, with Critical Notice': 'Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr Sheridan, Wit and Humour (1846); 'Chapter I Introduction', 'Chapter V Theocritus --(Concluded)', 'Chapter VII. Italian and English Pastoral', ' Chapter VIII English Pastoral - (Continued); and Scotch Pastoral', 'Chapter IX English Pastoral - (Concluded)', A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1847); 'Preface', Stories in Verse (1855); 'Remarks on Beauont and Fletcher Incidental to this Selection', Beaumont and Fletcher (1855); 'An Essay on the Cultivation, History, and Varieties of the Species of Poem Called the Sonnet': 'I On the Desirableness of Cultivating the Sonnet', 'II Of the Nature and Properties of the Sonnet, Particularly the Sonnet Called Legitimate', 'III Of Guittone d'Arezzo, and of the Sonnets', The Book of the Sonnet (1867); Explanatory Notes Volume 5: Poetical Works, 1801-21 Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; 'Retirement, or the Golden Mean', 'Sonnet. To Sensibility', 'The Negro Boy. A Ballad', 'Sonnet', Juvenilia (1801); 'Politics and Poetics, or The Desperate Situation of a Journalist Unhappily Smitten by the Love of Rhyme', The Reflector (1811); 'Sonnet to T B Esq', 'Sonnet to Hampstead', The Examiner (1813); '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 Examiner (1814); The Feast of the Poets (2nd edition, 1814); The Descent of Liberty: A Mask (1815); 'Sonnet to Hampstead VI', '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', The Examiner (1815); '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 mi 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 Thomas Brown, Jun. Letter 3', 'Harry Brown's Letters to his Friends. Letter V To his cousin 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 Examiner (1816); The Story of Rimini (1816); 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket', The Examiner (1817); 'To H***** S*****', The Examiner (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', Foliage: or, Poems Original and Translated (1818); '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 Long 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 Singers, the Head Choristers in St Stephen's Chapel; by their Most Devoted and Humble Beadsman, Harry Brown', 'The Intelligence of the Debates Vindicated. By Harry Brown', The Examiner (1819); 'Hero and Leander', 'Bacchus and Ariadne', 'The Panther', The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1819); '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', The Examiner (1820); 'Translation of Tasso's Celebrated Ode to the Golden Age, beginning, - "O bella eta dell' oro"', 'Songs of Robin Hood', The Indicator (1820); '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', The Examiner (1821); Explanatory Notes Volume 6: Poetical Works 1822-59 Abbreviations; Biographical Directory; 'The Dogs. To the Abusers of The Liberal', The Liberal (1822); 'To a Spider running across a Room', 'Talari Innamorati', 'The Choice', 'Mahmoud', The Liberal (1823); Ultra-Crepidarius: A Satire on William Gifford (1823); 'Velutti to his Revilers', The Examiner (1825); 'Caractacus', The New Monthly Magazine (1825); 'The Royal Line', The Companion (1828); 'High and Low; or, How to Write History. Suggested by an article in a review from the pen of Sir Walter Scott, in which accounts are given of Massaniello and the Duke of Guise', 'Alter et Idem. A Chemico-Poetical Thought', The Tatler (1830); 'Le Brun', 'Expostulation and Candour', 'Lines Written on a Sudden Arrival of Fine Weather in May', The Tatler (1831); 'The Lover of Music to the Pianoforte', The Athenaeum (1832); 'Preface', The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1832); 'Paganini. A Fragment', 'Thoughts in Bed Upon Waking and Rising. An "Indicator" in Verse', 'A Night Rain in Summer. June 28, 1834', 'An Angel in the House', Leigh Hunt's London Journal (1834); Captain Sword and Captain Pen. A Poem (1835); 'Songs and Chorus of the Flowers', 'The Glove and the Lions', 'The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit', 'Apollo and the Sunbeams', The New Monthly Magazine (1836); 'Blue-Stocking Revels; or, the Feast of the Violets', 'Doggrel on Double Columns and Large Type; or the praise of those pillars of our state, and its clear exposition', The Monthly Repository (1837); 'Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel', S C Hall's The Book of Gems (1838); 'To the Queen. An Offering of Gratitude on Her Majesty's Birthday', The Morning Chronicle (1840); The Palfrey; A Love Story of Old Times (1842); 'The Story of Rimini; or, Fruits of a Parent's Falsehood', 'Rondeau', 'Our Cottage', 'A Heaven Upon Earth. Fragment of an Unpublished Play. A Husband is Conversing with his Wife', The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1844); 'Dirge for an Infant', The Cambridge Chronicle (1849); 'Dream within Dream; or, Evil Minimised', Household Words (1850); 'The Inevitable. Inscribed to John Forster', 'Jaffar. Inscribed to the Memory of Shelley', 'Godiva. Inscribed to John Hunter, of Edinburgh', 'The Bitter Gourd. Inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire', 'Ode to the Sun', 'Death', 'Wallace and Fawdon', The New Monthly Magazine (1850); 'Kilspindie', 'The Trumpets of Doolkarnein', Household Words (1852) 'To Poerio and his Fellow-Patriots', The Spectator (1859); 'To Charles Dickens', 'Ultra-Germano-Criticasterism', 'Coronation Soliloquy of His Majesty King George the Fourth', The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1860); 'Waking at morn, with the accustom'd sigh', The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt (1862); 'To the Spirit Great and Good', Recollections of Writers (1878); Explanatory Notes; Index
Review :
'This magnificent edition ... promises ... to reconfigure the priorities of Romantic and Victorian historians and literary critics. .. The individual introductions by the respective volume editors constitute a major contribution to nineteenth-century studies and, taken together, provide the best preface to the writings and thought of Leigh Hunt that has ever been written.' Times Literary Supplement
