James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) is arguably one of the key figures of the Romantic period who also maintained an active role in the London literary scene until his death. He was an extremely prolific author who, over the course of a sixty-year publishing career (from the age of sixteen until a few weeks before his death), contributed not only poems and journal articles to British letters, but also essays, plays, critical editions, and a novel. He was also well connected to all the major figures of his time, from Lord Byron and P.B. Shelley to Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.
Over the course of the next three years of development, this site will contain a series of electronic editions of works by Leigh Hunt, along with information about his time and his contemporaries (in both text-based and multimedia-oriented format). Please visit the list of milestones for a detailed description of the project and a calendar of publication. Sign up to the mailing list to receive news about the site.
Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Editor, The Leigh Hunt Archive
Special Offer from Pickering & Chatto
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
I am pleased to report that Pickering & Chatto has recently listed The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt in their special offers section. The six-volume set is offered at 50% discount until the end of June 2008. (The offer price is 247.50 pounds or US$420.) More information on the edition can be found on the P&C website. Extracts from several reviews of the set can be read on my professional website.
UI Libraries receives Grant to create Digital Collection of Hunt Letters
Monday, April 7, 2008
The University of Iowa Libraries has been awarded a $20,000 grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to create a digital collection of British writer James Henry Leigh Hunt's correspondence. This collaborative project draws on UI's collection of Hunt materials as well as the research files of David R. Cheney, a UI alumnus and Hunt scholar, whose papers are held at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo Libraries. The UI Libraries will digitize 1,600 autograph letters from 1790-1858, transcripts and catalog records. Unlike other digitization projects that offer only the text of correspondence, this new digital collection will present images of the autograph letters, be full-text searchable, and provide scholarly transcripts of the letters. A description of the project and links to the digital collection can be found online.
Launch of the Leigh Hunt Archive
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Today is the launch of the beta version of the Leigh Hunt Archive, a site which will be continuously updated over the next three years. You can read more about the projected milestones and the editor elsewhere on the site.
The editor gratefully acknowledges the generous support of
