Leigh Hunt, Friend of Keats, Byron, and Shelley, and Author of "Jenny Kissed Me"

James Henry Leigh Hunt was a 19th century essayist, critic, poet, and publisher. Many English poets and writers were contemporaries of Leigh Hunt, including John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, and Charles Darwin. Keats, Byron, and Shelley were personal friends who benefited from Hunt