Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats
John Stuart Mill · en
[367] In 1814 Moore showed considerable pride in being included as one of
the four poets to sup with Apollo in the _Feast of the Poets_ and said
that he was "particularly flattered by praise from Hunt, because he is one
of the most honest and candid men" that he knew. (_Memoirs, Journal and
Correspondence_, II, p. 159.) In 1819 Hunt had urged upon Perry, the
editor of the _Morning Chronicle_, the necessity of a public subscription
for Moore. (_Ibid._, II, p. 340). An unfavorable review of Moore's
political principles in _The Examiner_ during the same year may have done
something to bring about the change in Moore's feelings, though he was
eulogized in a later issue of January 21, 1821.
[368] B. W. Procter, _An Autobiographical Fragment_, p. 153.
[369] _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, II, p. 583.
[370] _Ibid._, II, p. 582.
[371] _Ibid._, II, p. 584.
[372] Jeaffreson, _The Real Lord Byron_, II, p. 188.
[373] _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_, p. 111.
[374] Nicoll, _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_, p. 353,
March, 1822.
[375] _Ibid._, p. 356.
[376] _Fortnightly_, XXIX, p. 850.
[377] _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_, p. 112.
[378] _Works of Shelley_, VIII, p. 288-289.
[379] _Life of Shelley_, II, p. 459.
[380] _Autobiography_, II, p. 94.
[381] _Correspondence_, I, p. 86.
[382] Monkhouse, _Life of Leigh Hunt_, p. 156.
[383] Hunt refuted the statement that Byron had walled off part of his
dwelling and furnished it handsomely. (_Lord Byron and Some of His
Contemporaries_, p. 14 ff.)
[384] _Works of Shelley_, VIII, pp. 242, 253.
[385] Nicoll and Wise, _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_, p.
342, December 22, 1818.
[386] _Works of Shelley_, VIII, p. 286.
[387] _Correspondence_, I, p. 190.
[388] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 18.
[389] _Ibid._, p. 18.
[390] "I could always procure what I wanted from Lord Byron, and living
here is divinely cheap." (_Correspondence_, I, p. 198, November 7, 1822.)
[391] _Life of Byron_, p. 242.
[392] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 6.
[393] _Works of Shelley_, VIII, p. 257.
[394] She used no tact in her dealings with Lord Byron. She let him see
that she had no respect for rank or titles. She even went beyond the
limits of courtesy in her remarks to him. On Byron's saying, "What do you
think, Mrs. Hunt? Trelawny had been speaking of my morals! What do you
think of that?" "It is the first time," said Mrs. Hunt, "I ever heard of
them." (_Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 27). Of his
portrait by Harlowe she said "that it resembled a great schoolboy, who had
had a plain bun given him, instead of a plum one," a facetious speech
indiscreetly repeated by Hunt to Byron.
[395] _Letters and Journals_, VI, p. 124.