ABSTRACT
Hunt, Story of Rimini (1816) and Foliage (1818); article by ?John Gibson Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, III (May 1818), 196-201. The temper of this attack is clear enough; a few of its allusions may not be. On page 196 the “Cockney Court-gazette” was the Examiner; Lisson Grove was the street where both Hunt and Benjamin Robert Haydon lived in 1818 (though Hunt moved soon after the date of this review). On page 199, the Catherine Street address was that of the Examiner’s office. On page 200, Hunt’s “Champion” is Hazlitt, who contributed to the Champion, a Sunday newspaper. Here is the first reference to his pimples. The “Nepheliads” (p. 200) in Hunt’s poem “The Nymphs” (Foliage) were nymphs of the clouds.
