ABSTRACT
First published in The Tatler, II, 24 February 1831, p. 595; see headnote above, pp. 117–20. It was reprinted in Hunt, Dramatic, pp. 261–3. Cf. Hunt’s 1807 News essay ‘A Few Thoughts on Opera’ and his 1812 Examiner essay on the oratorio (Hunt, Dramatic, pp. 61–4). For a detailed study of Hunt and the opera, see Theodore Fenner, Leigh Hunt and Opera Criticism: The Examiner Years, 1808–21 (Lawrence: Kansas UP, 1972).
