Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats

A critical study reconstructs the personal, political, and literary connections between Leigh Hunt and three younger Romantic poets, tracing the political background that shaped their interactions and assessing Hunt's influence through biography and close reading. It opens with a survey of the reactionary climate and a biographical account of Hunt’s ancestry, education, career, imprisonment, finances, beliefs, and poetry; then devotes chapters to Keats, Shelley, and Byron, analyzes Hunt’s role as editor of The Liberal and the Cockney School controversy, and ends with a concluding synthesis and bibliography.