ABSTRACT
First published in The Tatler, II, 4 June 1831, pp. 937–8; see headnote above, pp. 117–20. It was reprinted in Hunt, Literary, pp. 389–93. William Wordsworth was unimpressed by the essay: ‘Mr Leigh Hunt is a Coxcomb, was a Coxcomb, and ever will be a Coxcomb’, he wrote to Edward Moxon on 13 June 1831 (Wordsworth, Letters, 1829–1834, p. 401). Cf. the present essay with Hunt’s discussion of Wordsworth in The Feast of the Poets (see Vol. 5, pp. 63–4), The Examiner (see Vol. 2, pp. 55–61), and his London Journal (see below, pp. 301–4).
