“The long-lost voyager must have been like a person consecrated in all the quarters of heaven.”
About 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…