A Pimlico Original and the first biography since 1930 of one of the most influential and charismatic figures in the political and cultural life of the 19th century.
Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at St Andrews University. He is the author of many books on Romanticism, including Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1990), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1998), and The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (2002).
Roe is an exceptionally shrewd critic of Romanticism - uncannily
alert... everything he says is well-turned and reliably clever
*Guardian*
Roe provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of
Hunt’s first 37 years
*Daily Telegraph*
Roe offers a meticulous and thorough account of Hunt’s significance
in the literary culture of the Regency era
*Sunday Telegraph*
Roe is a seasoned Romantic scholar who offers an impassioned
account of Hunt's 'first life'
*Sunday Times*
Roe's biography is an absorbing account of English intellectual
culture in the early 19th century
*Evening Standard*
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