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The Correspondence (Volume 1)

The Correspondence (Volume 1)

Hunt, Leigh

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1234965488
ISBN13: 9781234965488
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.23 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 267 DOMESTIC TEOUBLES.-LETTEES FEOM CHELSEA. In 1833, Leigh Hunt went to live at No. 4, Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea; where the family stayed until the summer of 1840. At the beginning of that time he wrote the Year of Honeymoons, in BulFs Court Magazine. In 1834 the London Journal came forth in a partnership with Charles Knight. The publication promised to have a brilliant success, but, as so often happened with the works of Leigh Hunt, the success was not sufficient to reimburse the labour or the cost. Two very conspicuous reasons for this constantly partial result are so obvious as to speak for themselves. Although attracting the personal affection as well as the admiration of those readers who took to him at all, Leigh Hunt still spoke with so much speciality of idea and expression, that the circle always proved to be comparatively limited. The intensity of the fervour with which his writing was received invariably gave an idea of a wider success than was ultimately realized. Again, the immense amount of labour which he bestowed particularly in searching out every point to elucidate and to verify, involved an outlay of time and of money that could scarcely be returned even by a large and certainly not by a limited sale. The expenditure in time, exertion, and health was thus constantly in excess of the returns. For by far the largest proportion of the labour, all that which simply negatived or failed to elucidate, instead of verifying, remained unseen by the public, but was as conscientiously and arduously gone through as that similar portion which resulted in print. In 1834, Leigh Hunt took the editing of the Monthly Repository on a sort of proprietary footing. In this he had some admirable assistance, amongst others from Walter Savage Landor, from Egerton Webb...

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