How did he get it done?
John Jones: Leigh Hunt’s sense of woe, 22 September 2005
Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt
by Nicholas Roe.
Pimlico, 428 pp., £14.99, January 2005,0 7126 0224 0 Show More
by Nicholas Roe.
Pimlico, 428 pp., £14.99, January 2005,
The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt
by Anthony Holden.
Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, January 2005,0 316 85927 3 Show More
by Anthony Holden.
Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, January 2005,
“... that libertas is ‘from the Latin word for freedom’, but on the same page introduces the poet Bryan Waller Proctor without adding that he wrote under the pseudonym Barry Cornwall. He has an unprofessorial habit of vague assertion: ‘At the close of the 18th century the economic status of the middle class was insecure.’ His logical grasp can’t be ... ”