Roe is an exceptionally shrewd critic of Romanticism - uncannily alert... everything he says is well-turned and reliably clever

Roe provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of Hunt’s first 37 years

Roe offers a meticulous and thorough account of Hunt’s significance in the literary culture of the Regency era

Roe is a seasoned Romantic scholar who offers an impassioned account of Hunt's 'first life'

Roe's biography is an absorbing account of English intellectual culture in the early 19th century

Excellent...intriguing reading...Surely [Leigh Hunt] should be back in print for us to judge him now

Roe brings to his work decades of research on the period...[his] volume is free of imprecision and well-informed