Leigh Hunt
/ˌliː ˈhʌnt/
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- (1784-1859) an English poet, writer and journalist. He was a close friend of the Romantic poets, including Keats and Shelley. His best-known book was Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828), a realistic account of the lives of the great poets he knew.