Leigh Hunt

Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Leigh Hunt’

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Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt looks back to a memorable event in a long life.

Leigh Hunt first published this delightful poem (which he labelled a Rondeau, though hardly in the technical sense of that term) in The Monthly Chronicle for November 1838. It was inspired by a impulsive greeting from Jane Welsh, wife of Thomas Carlyle.

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A Cricketer’s World Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt reflects on the civilising effect of the game of cricket.

Essayist Leigh Hunt was a cricket-lover, and panegyrics on the game and its health-giving properties pepper his writing. He was also of the opinion that those whose got out to play the game gained an appreciation for the countryside and a perspective on the world denied to many others.

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