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“There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.”

Distinguishing measurable reality from the realm of feeling and imagination · Men, Women, and Books (1847)

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Leigh Hunt

19 October 1784–28 August 1859

James Henry Leigh Hunt, known throughout his literary life as Leigh Hunt, was born on 19 October 1784 at Southgate, then a village north of London, and died at Putney on 28 August 1859. He was a poet, essayist, journalist, editor, critic, translator, dramatist, and indefatigable friend to writers whose fame would…

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