Male : Poet and essayist. Fined and imprisoned (1813) for libelling the Prince Regent in "The Examiner". Leigh Hunt's London Journal was published from 1834-35

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Minchenden, Southgate, Middlesex

Date of Birth : 1784 Date of Death : 1859 Age : 75

Education : Christ's Hospital School

1801-1810
Juvenilia, or a Collection of Poems written between the Ages of 12 & 16 (1801 J Whiting, London)
Classic Tales, Serious and Lively (1806-7 Hunt & Reynell, London) - 5 vols
Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres (1807 John Hunt) - Anon
An Attempt to Show the Folly & Dangers of Methodism (1809 John Hunt, London)

1811-1820
The Feast of the Poets (1814 James Cawthorn, London) (1815 Gale, Curtis & Fenner)
The Descent of Liberty : A Mask (1815 Gale, Curtis & Fenner, London)
The Story of Rimini : A Poem (1816 T Davison for J Murray, London)
Foliage, or Poems Original and Translated (1818 for C & J Ollier, London)
Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne (1819 for C & J Ollier, London)
Amyntas : A Tale of the Woods (1820 T & J Allman)

1821-1830
The Months (1821 C & J Ollier)
Ultra-Crepidarius : A Satire on William Gifford (1823 John Hunt)
The Literary Examiner (1823 H L Hunt, London)
The Rebellion of the Beasts, or The ass is Dead ! Long Live the Ass !!! (1825 Hunt, London)
[Anon but often attributed to Hunt]
Bacchus in Tuscany : A Dithyrambic Poem (1825 for J & H L Hunt, London)
Lord Byron & Some of His Contemporaries (1828 Colburn)
Sir Ralph Esher, or Memoirs of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles II (1830 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols

1831-1840
Christianism : or Belief and Unbelief Reconciled .. (1832 London) - not for sale. Only 75 copies printed
The Poetical Works (1832 Moxon)
(Ed) The Indicator and the Companion (1834 Colburn & Bentley) - 2 vols (1845 Wiley & Putnam, NY)
Captain Sword and Captain Pen : A Poem (1835 Charles Knight, London)
A Legend of Florence : A Play in Five Acts (1840 Moxon)
Notice of the Late Mr Egerton Webbe (1840)
The Seer : or Common-places Refreshed (1840-1 Moxon) (1865 Roberts, Boston - 2 vols)
(Ed) The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1840 London)

1841-1845
The Palfrey : A Love Story of Old Times (1842 How & Parsons, London)
(Ed) One Hundred Romances of Real Life (1843 Whittaker, London)
The Poetical Works (1844 Moxon)
(Ed) Imagination and Fancy, or selections from the English Poets (1844 Smith Elder)
(1845 Smith Elder. 2nd Ed)

1846-1850
(Ed) Stories from the Italian Poets (1846 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
(Ed) Wit and Humour : Selected from the English Poets (1846 Smith Elder) (1847 Wiley & Putnam, NY)
Men, Women and Books : Sketches, Essays & Critical Memoirs (1847 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
(1847 Harper NY) - 2 vols
A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1848 Smith Elder) - Richard Doyle
The Town : Its Memorable Characters and Events (1848 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
(1859 London. New Ed)
(Ed) A Book for a Corner (1849 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols (1852 Putnam)
Readings for Railways (1849 C Gilpin, London)
(Ed) The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh & Farquhar (1849 London)
The Autobiography, with Reminiscences (1850 Smith Elder) - 3 vols (1850 Harper NY - 2 vols)

1851-1860
Table-Talk (1851 Smith Elder)
The Religion of the Heart : A Manual of Faith & Duty (1853 John Chapman, London)
The Old Court Suburb, or Memorials of Kensington (1855 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
(1855. 2nd Ed Rev & Enlarged) - 2 vols
(1860 London. 3rd Ed)
Stories in Verse : Now First Collected (1855 Routledge)
(Ed) Beaumont and Fletcher (1855 Bohn)
The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1860 Routledge)

1861 Onwards
A Saunter Through the West End (1861 Hurst & Blackett)
The Correspondence (1862 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
A Tale for a Chimney Corner & Other Essays (1869 John Camden Hotten)
A Day by the Fire and Other Papers (1870 Sampson Low)
The Wishing-Cap Papers (1873 Lee and Shepard, Boston)
(Ed) The Book of the Sonnet (1885 Sampson Low) (1885 Roberts, Boston US)
Tales by Leigh Hunt : Now First Collected (1891 Wm Paterson, London)
The Old Court Suburb : Memorials of Kensington (1902 Freemantle, London) - 2 vols
The Essays of Leigh Hunt (1903 Dent) - Edited by Arthur Symons. H M Brock
Prefaces by Leigh Hunt, mainly to His Periodicals (1927 Frank Hollings, London)
(1927 Torch Press for Hill, Chicago) - 500
Letters to Leigh Hunt from His Son Vincent .. (1934 Cloanthus Press, Cambridge) - 300

PERIODICALS EDITED BY LEIGH HUNT
The Examiner (1808-21 J Hunt) (1996-8 Pickering & Chatto : 3 sets of five volumes £550 each set)
The Reflector (1810-11 J Hunt)
The Literary Pocket Book (1819-23 C & J Ollier) - 5 vols
The Indicator (1819-21)
The Liberal (1822-3 J Hunt) - 4 numbers
The Companion (1828)
The Chat of the Week (1830) - 13 numbers
The Tatler (1830-2)
Leigh Hunt's London Journal (1834-5) - 91 numbers + 9 supplements
The Monthly repository : New Series (1837-8)
Leigh Hunt's Journal (1850-1)

READING
Edmund Blunden : Leigh Hunt's Examiner Examined (1928 Cobden-Sanderson)
Edmund Blunden : Leigh Hunt (1930 Cobden-Sanderson)
Alexander Mitchell : A Bibliography of the Writings of Leigh Hunt (1931 The Bookman's Journal, London)
Luther A Brewer : My Leigh Hunt Library (1932 Cedar Rapids, US)
William H Marshall : Byron, Shelley, Hunt and "The Liberal' (1960 Pennsylvania UP)
Nicholas Roe : Fiery Heart - The First Life Leigh Hunt (2005 Pimlico £12.99)
Anthony Holden : The Wit in the Dungeon - The Life of Leigh Hunt (2005 Little Brown £20)