![]() ![]() Books of amusement I read at my leisure," the boy wrote to an aunt. ![]() But Leigh was soon let loose in his father's library, where by age 6 he had learned to "perfectly repeat 2,063 words" in Latin. ![]() Hunt was born in 1784, and his first memory was of a prison cell: his impecunious father, a lawyer-turned-preacher from Barbados whose "dash of 'creole' blood" may have been the source of Leigh's tawny good looks, had landed with his family in debtor's jail. Albans), Holden seems well suited to recount this rare story of a writer's life that's more dramatic than anything contrived by the writer's own imagination. ![]() It's little wonder that Anthony Holden - prolific journalist, biographer and translator - was drawn to the life of Leigh Hunt, a writer whose "overproductivity" in virtually every literary genre left him open to charges that he possessed, as the painter Benjamin Haydon put it, "a smattering of everything and mastery of nothing." The author of biographies of Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Olivier, Prince Charles and the serial killer Graham Young ("the teacup poisoner" of St. The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt - Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics. ![]()
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