The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt
Volume 6 Poetical Works, 1822-59
Edited by John Strachan
LONDON PICKERING AND CHATTO 2003 CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix Biographical Directory xi
From The Liberal (1822) 'The Dogs. To the Abusers of The Liberal' 1
From The Liberal (1823) 'To a Spider running across a Room' 17 'Talari Innamorati' 19 'The Choice' 22 'Mahmoud' 32
Ultra-Crepidarius: A Satire on William Gifford (1823) 35
From The Examiner (1825) 'Vellutti to his Revilers' 47
From The New Monthly Magazine (1825) 'Caractacus' 57
From The Companion (1828) 'The Royal Line' 61
From The Tatler (1830) 'High and Low; or, How to Write History. Suggested by an article in a review from the pen of Sir Walter Scott, in which accounts are given of Massaniello and the Duke of Guise' 63 'Alter et Idem. A Chemico-Poetical Thought' 66
From The Tatler (1831) 'Le Brun' 69 'Expostulation and Candour' ' 70 'Lines Written on a Sudden Arrival of Fine Weather in May' 71 Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt, Volume 6
From The Athen&um (1832) 'The Lover of Music to the Pianoforte' 73
From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1832) 'Preface' 75 i From Leigh Hunt's London Journal (1834) 'Paganini. A Fragment5 99 'Thoughts in Bed Upon Waking and Rising. An "Indicator" in Verse' 102 'A Night Rain in Summer. June 28, 1834' 108 'An Angel in the House' 109
Captain Sword and Captain Pen. A Poem (1835) 111
From The New Monthly Magazine (1836) 'Songs and Chorus of the Flowers' 143 'The Glove and the Lions' 148 'The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit' 149 'Apollo and the Sunbeams' 151
From The Monthly Repository (1837) 'Blue-Stocking Revels; or, the Feast of the Violets' 153 'Doggrel on Double Columns and Large Type; or the praise of those pillars of our state, and its clear exposition' 180
From S. C. Hall's The Book of Gems (1838) 'Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel' 185
From The Morning Chronicle (1840) 'To the Queen. An Offering of Gratitude on Her Majesty's Birthday5 187
The Palfrey; A Love Story of Old Times 191
From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1844) The Story of Rimini; or, Fruits of a Parent's Falsehood 215 'Rondeau' 243 'Our Cottage' 244 A Heaven upon Earth. Fragment of an Unpublished Play. A Husband is Conversing with his Wife' 248
From The Cambridge Chronicle (1849) 'Dirge for an Infant5 249
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From Household Words (1850) 'Dream within Dream; or, Evil Minimised' 251
From The New Monthly Magazine (1850) 'The Inevitable. Inscribed to John Forster' 253 'Jaffar. Inscribed to the Memory of Shelley' 255 'Godiva. Inscribed to John Hunter, of Edinburgh' 256 'The Bitter Gourd. Inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire' 258 'Ode to the Sun' 259 'Death' 261 'Wallace and Fawdon5 262
From Household Words (1852) 'Kilspindie5 267 'The Trumpets of Doolkarnein' " 269
From The Spectator (1859) 'To Poerio and his Fellow-Patriots' 273
From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1860) 'To Charles Dickens' 275 'Ultra-Germano-Criticasterism' 276 'Coronation Soliloquy of His Majesty King George the Fourth' 277
From The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt (1862) 'Waking at morn, with the accustom'd sigh' 281
From Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878) 'To the Spirit Great and Good5 283
Explanatory Notes 285 Index " 309
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