Quotes
"We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light; Nature held us forth, and said, 'Lo! my thoughts of white.'"
All quotationsThe themes James Henry Leigh Hunt wrote about
Biography
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer.
Early Life
Leigh Hunt was born at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the USA. His father Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because of their loyalist sympathies during the American War of Independence. Hunt's father took holy orders and became a popular preacher, but he was unsuccessful in obtaining a permanent living. Hunt's father was then employed by James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos as tutor to his nephew, James Henry Leigh (father of Chandos Leigh), after whom the boy was named.
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