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The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt--Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics
Anthony Holden
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Hardcover, 430 pages; 2005
$20.95
He was jailed for insulting the Prince of Wales. He turned his cell into a literary salon of sorts, hence his being dubbed the "wit in the dungeon." He's acknowledged as having invented theater criticism. He published the work and launched the careers of Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, and others. He fought with Mary Shelley over the heart of her husband (literally his heart!) after Shelley's death by drowning. This is the sort of literary figure--his name almost a household word, but not quite--that we all want to know more about. Anthony Holden brings Leigh Hunt's highly original life the attention it's due.
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