Charles Wentworth Dilke
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Charles Wentworth Dilke was an English liberal critic and writer on literature.
Charles Wentworth Dilke
Leigh Hunt
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James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Charles Wentworth Dilke
…retiring from which in 1830 he devoted himself to literary pursuits. His liberal political views and literary interests brought him into contact with Leigh Hunt, the editor of The Examiner. He had in 1814–16 made a continuation of Robert Dodsley's Collection of English Plays, and in 1829 he became part proprietor…
Portrait by Benjamin Haydon
Leigh Hunt, engraved by H. Meyer from a drawing by J. Hayter
The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier (1889); pictured in the centre are, from left, Trelawny, Hunt and Byron. (As a matter of fact, Hunt was not standing before the fire but remained in his coach for the entire time, though other accounts report that he took a swim in the sea)