Leigh Hunt’s miscellaneous poems extend over a great variety of subjects, from the classic legend of _Hero and Leander_, to the mediæval fabliau of the _Gentle Armour_, and the satirical critique of the _Feast of the Poets_. This last was published early in the author’s maturer career; it is “in his second manner,” and he afterwards revised many of the dicta on contemporary writers which he placed in the mouth of the chairman on that festive occasion, Apollo. But it helped to loosen the trammels of conventionalism in verse. The _Gentle Armour_, although true to a modern refinement, is also true to the spirit of the days of chivalry; it relates, in straightforward language, how a knight who had refused the bidding of his mistress to defend a falsehood--not her own--is punished by receiving the most feminine of garments as his cognizance at a tournament; and how, wearing that _alone_, he takes in his own person a bloody and reproving vengeance for the slight, in the end winning both fight and lady. The subject was thought “indelicate” by some who were less refined than the author--some descendants, perchance, of the proverbial Peeping Tom. The _Hero and Leander_ is a flowing and vivid recital of the ancient tale. The three works form good specimens of the spirit as well as execution of Leigh Hunt’s poetical writings. Of some of his smaller pieces it may be said that they had become classic in his lifetime--such as the reverential sonnet “On the Lock of Milton’s Hair” which he possessed; the exquisite parental tenderness of the lines “To T. L. H., in Sickness;” and the grandly Christian exaltation of charity in his _Abou-ben-Adhem_.