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Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi

Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats

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Hunt, reaped the rewards of his revivification of the heroic couplet. The
diffuseness of the diction of the _Story of Rimini_ results in a movement
weaker than Dryden's and less buoyant than Chaucer's. Yet the verse is
distinguished by a fluency and grace and melody that at times are very
pleasing. It had a notable influence on English verse--an influence begun
by others but strongly reinforced by Hunt. Further treatment of the
influence of Hunt's diction and versification upon Keats and Shelley is
reserved for chapters II and III of the present study.

  ---------------+-------------------------------------------------
                 |Dryden,
                 |_Absalom & Achitophel_,
                 |1682.
                 |  +----------------------------------------------
                 |  |Wm. Chamberlayne,
                 |  |_Pharronida_, 1689.
                 |  +  +-------------------------------------------
                 |  |  |Alexander Pope,
                 |  |  |_Dunciad_, 1727.
                 |  |  +  +----------------------------------------
                 |  |  |  |Leigh Hunt,[80]
                 |  |  |  |_Story of Rimini_, 1816.
                 |  |  |  +  +-------------------------------------
                 |  |  |  |  |John Keats,
                 |  |  |  |  |_I stood tiptoe_, 1817.
                 |  |  |  |  +  +----------------------------------
                 |  |  |  |  |  |Keats,
                 |  |  |  |  |  |_Sleep and Poetry_, 1817.
                 |  |  |  |  |  +  +-------------------------------
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |Keats,
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |_Endymion_, 1818.
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  +  +----------------------------
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |Keats,[81]
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |_Lamia_, 1820.
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  +  +-------------------------
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |Shelley,
                 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |_Julian & Maddalo_, 1819.
  ---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------------------------
  Run-on Couplets| 4|61| 1| 3|23|47|54|20|45
  Run-on Lines   |16|71|12|26|41|48|44|35|52
  Triplets       | 3| 0| 0| 2| 0| 0| 0| 5| 4
  Alexandrines   | 3| 0| 1| 2| 0| 0| 3|12| 0
  ---------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--