1st Edition

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4

    This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.

    Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Biographical Directory -- Imagination and Fancy,844 -- Preface -- An Answer to the Question, ‘What Is Poetry?’ -- Selections from Spenser, with Critical Notice -- Archimago’s Hermitage and the House of Morpheus -- The Cave of Mammon and Garden of Proserpine -- A Gallery of Pictures from Spenser -- Selections from Marlowe, with Critical Notice -- The Passionate Shepherd to his Love -- Selections from Shakspeare, with Critical Notice -- Selections from Ben Jonson, with Critical Notice -- Selections from Beaumont and Fletcher, with Critical Notice -- Melancholy -- Selections from Milton, with Critical Notice -- L’Allegro -- Il Penseroso -- Selections from Coleridge, with Critical Notice -- Kubla Khan -- Work without Hope -- Selections from Shelley, with Critical Notice -- To a Skylark -- Selections from Keats, with Critical Notice -- The Eve of St Agnes -- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer -- Wit and Humour, 1846 -- Preface -- An Illustrative Essay on Wit and Humour -- Selections from Chaucer, with Critical Notice -- Characters of Pilgrims -- Selections from Shakspeare, with Critical Notice -- Selections from Ben Jonson, with Critical Notice -- Selections from Marvel, with Critical Notice -- Description of Holland -- Selections from Butler, with Critical Notice -- Description of Hudibras and his Equipments -- Selections from Dryden, with Critical Notice -- Character of Lord Shaftesbury -- Selections from Pope, with Critical Notice -- Characters and Ruling Passions: Character of Addison -- Selections from Swift, with Critical Notice -- Mary the Cook-Maid’s Letter to Dr Sheridan -- A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1847 -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Chapter V. Theocritus. – (Concluded.) -- Chapter VII. Italian and English Pastoral -- Chapter VIII. English Pastoral – (Continued); and Scotch Pastoral -- Chapter IX. English Pastoral. – (Concluded.) -- Stories in Verse, 1855 -- Preface -- Beaumont and Fletcher, 1855 -- Remarks on Beaumont and Fletcher Incidental to this Selection -- The Book of the Sonnet, 1867 -- An Essay on the Cultivation, History, and Varieties of the -- of Poem Called the Sonnet -- Explanatory Notes.