Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

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English essayist and poet. He influenced and encouraged the Romantics. His verse, though easy and agreeable, is little appreciated today, and he is best remembered as an essayist. He recycled parts of his Lord Byron and some of his Friends (1828), in which he criticized Byron's character, as Autobiography (1850). The character of Harold Skimpole in Charles Dickens's Bleak House was allegedly based on him.

The appearance in his Liberal newspaper the Examiner of an unfavourable article that he had written about the Prince Regent caused him to be convicted for libel and imprisoned in 1813. He was the friend of and publisher of poems by Byron, Keats, and Shelley.

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