James Henry Leigh Hunt - Other Works

Other Works

• Amyntas, A Tale of the Woods (1820), a translation of Tasso's Aminta
• The Seer, or Common-Places refreshed (2 pts., 1840–1841)
• three of the Canterbury Tales in The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer modernized (1841)
• Stories from the Italian Poets (1846)
• compilations such as One Hundred Romances of Real Life (1843)
• selections from Beaumont and Fletcher (1855)
• with S Adams Lee, The Book of the Sonnet (Boston, 1867).

His Poetical Works (2 vols.), revised by himself and edited by Lee, were printed at Boston in 1857, and an edition (London and New York) by his son, Thornton Hunt, appeared in 1860. Among volumes of selections are: Essays (1887), ed. A Symons; Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist (1889), ed. C Kent; Essays and Poems (1891), ed. RB Johnson for the "Temple Library."

His Autobiography was revised shortly before his death, and edited (1859) by his son Thornton Hunt, who also arranged his Correspondence (2 vols., 1862). Additional letters were printed by the Cowden Clarkes in their Recollections of Writers (1878). The Autobiography was edited (2 vols., 1903) with full bibliographical note by R Ingpen. A bibliography of his works was compiled by Alexander Ireland (List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, 1868). There are short lives of Hunt by Cosmo Monkhouse ("Great Writers," 1893) and by RB Johnson (1896). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Volume 28 (2004).