COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN ENGLISH

LEIGH HUNT’S RELATIONS WITH
BYRON, SHELLEY AND KEATS

LEIGH HUNT’S RELATIONS WITH
BYRON, SHELLEY AND KEATS

BY
BARNETTE MILLER, Ph.D.

New York
THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1910

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Copyright, 1910
By The Columbia University Press
Printed from type April, 1910

Press of
The New Era Printing Company
Lancaster, Pa.

PREFACE

The relations of Leigh Hunt to Byron, Shelley and Keats have been treatedin a fragmentary way in various works of biography and criticism, and frommany points of view. Yet hitherto there has been no attempt to construct awhole out of the parts. This led Professor Trent to suggest the subject tome about five years ago. The publication of the results of myinvestigation has been unfortunately delayed for nearly four years afterthe work was finished.

I am indebted to Mr. S. L. Wolff for reading the first and secondchapters; to Professors G. R. Krapp, W. W. Lawrence, A. H. Thorndike, ofColumbia University, and Professor William Alan Nielson, now of Harvard,for suggestions throughout. I am especially glad to have this opportunityto record my gratitude to Prof. Trent, whose inspiration and guidance andkindness from beginning to end have alone made completion of the studypossible.

B. M.
Constantinople, Turkey.
March 21, 1910.

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