HUNT, Leigh.
Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers.
London: Chapman and Hall , 1846.
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Item Number: RRB-151826
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First Edition of Leigh Hunt's Stories From the Italian Poets
First edition of this collection of 19th-century prose retellings and analyses of epic tales from famous Italian poets. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, triple ruling and floral designs stamped in blind to the front and rear panels. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
English critic, essayist and poet Leigh Hunt was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public. Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier and he inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.
Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers.
$150.00
In Stock
