Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN ENGLISH LEIGH HUNT'S RELATIONS WITH BYRON, SHELLEY AND KEATS LEIGH HUNT'S RELATIONS WITH BYRON, SHELLEY AND KEATS BY BARNETTE MILLER, PH.D. New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1910 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1910 BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Printed from type April, 1910 PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY LANCASTER, PA. _This Monograph has been approved by the Department of English in Columbia University as a contribution to knowledge worthy of publication._ A. H. THORNDIKE, _Secretary_. PREFACE The relations of Leigh Hunt to Byron, Shelley and Keats have been treated in a fragmentary way in various works of biography and criticism, and from many points of view. Yet hitherto there has been no attempt to construct a whole out of the parts. This led Professor Trent to suggest the subject to me about five years ago. The publication of the results of my investigation has been unfortunately delayed for nearly four years after the work was finished. I am indebted to Mr. S. L. Wolff for reading the first and second chapters; to Professors G. R. Krapp, W. W. Lawrence, A. H. Thorndike, of Columbia University, and Professor William Alan Nielson, now of Harvard, for suggestions throughout. I am especially glad to have this opportunity to record my gratitude to Prof. Trent, whose inspiration and guidance and kindness from beginning to end have alone made completion of the study possible. B. M. CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY. March 21, 1910. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. LEIGH HUNT 1784-1823 1 CHAPTER II. KEATS 32 CHAPTER III. SHELLEY 65 CHAPTER IV. BYRON AND _The Liberal_ 88 CHAPTER V. THE COCKNEY SCHOOL 121 CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION 159 BIBLIOGRAPHY 164 CHAPTER I Revolutionary tendencies of the age--The Reaction--Counter Reform movement--Leigh Hunt--His Ancestry--School days--Career as a Journalist--Imprisonment--Finances--Politics--Religion--Poetry.