ENG 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Leigh Hunt, The Dunciad, Blank Verse
19 Apr 2017
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These two things led to ancestral baggage: didn"t have effective male role model, likely suffered from sexual abuse and physical abuse. Changed way of living when he found he would be a baron: public school system of the elite and then cambridge. Political aristocrat and in house of lords (1809), but largely liberal (sympathetic to poorer people0. Befriended john cam hobhouse, shelley, leigh hunt (publisher), thomas moore (poet) Eccentric in manner moody: became particularly unkind to women. Became celebrity (good looks) and financial success upon publication of childe harold, 1812: i awoke one morning and found myself famous. Childe harold landmark publication (1 of 2) poetry sold well: never wanted to keep money (eventually he had to to live in italy) Number of scandalous relationships (most devastating: lady caroline lamb) Exiled self in 1816 because of baggage of relationships: popularity went up and down. He was also accessible, attracted lower social order: combined long poems and prose rhyme schemes.
