Noun
British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
Source: WordNetAt this time members of Shelley's literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject—Shelley, John Keats and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets on the Nile around the same time. Source: Internet
In 1850, after William Wordsworth's death and Samuel Rogers ' refusal, Tennyson was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered. Source: Internet
Though Skimpole brutally sends up Leigh Hunt, some critics have detected in his portrait features of Dickens's own character, which he sought to exorcise by self-parody. Source: Internet