About this book
Leigh Hunt was an English poet, essayist and editor best remembered as the host of a literary circle which gathered at his home in Hampstead and attracted many well known writers of the day including Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Moore and Charles Lamb. He wrote many letters to various friends including some Epistles in Verse of which those to Byron, Moore, Hazlitt and Lamb are recorded here. He also made translations from Poets of Antiquity (Homer, Theocritus, Anacreon and Catullus) (Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters (22)
1EPISTLES: To Lord Byron
2To Thomas Moore
3To William Hazlitt
4To Charles Lamb
5MISCELLANIES: Fancy's Party
6Thoughts of the Avon
7Song
8SONNETS: Description of Hampstead
9Under a Portrait of Raphael
10To Percy Shelley
11To the Same
12To John Keats
13On Receiving a Lock of Milton's Hair
14The Nile
15TRANSLATIONS: The First Re-appearance of Achilles
16Priam Venting his Temper
17Priam at the Feet of Achilles
18The Cyclops
19The Rural Concert
20The Banquet
21The Dance
22The Seat Under the Tree
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