ABSTRACT
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), essayist, journalist, minor poet, was editor of the ‘Examiner’ (1808–21), and served a term in prison for reflections on the Prince Regent in that journal. A gracious and ephemeral writer, he was a catalyst for the Romantic poets, and Dickens’s caricature in Harold Skimpole (‘Bleak House’) hardly does him justice.
