{"id":110,"date":"2009-12-17T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:03:47","slug":"it-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-make-presents-to-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2009\/12\/17\/it-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-make-presents-to-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is a dangerous thing to make presents to poets\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections has recently acquired a new letter to add to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/resources\/Brewer-LeighHunt\">Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection<\/a>.\u00a0 This letter, written by Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello in 1816, highlights Hunt\u2019s close relationship with the noted composer and serves as a primary example of Hunt\u2019s early correspondence.\u00a0 In it, Hunt talks of visiting Novello and of the gifts ladies send him, to which he declares \u201c\u2026it is a dangerous thing to make presents to poets.\u201d\u00a0 Hunt\u2019s extensive correspondence reveals an intimate knowledge of literary, artistic, political, and religious ideas circulating in the first half of nineteenth-century Britain.\u00a0Visit the digital collection <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/leighhunt\/\">Leigh Hunt Letters<\/a> to learn more about Hunt\u2019s life and career, and to take a closer look at this letter as well as over 1600 other examples of Hunt\u2019s extensive correspondence.\u00a0 The letter is reproduced below.<strong> <\/strong><em>\u00a0\u2013 Anne Covell, Robert A. Olson Fellow 2008-2010, Special Collections &amp; University Archives<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/12-17-09-hunt_Page1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"626\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/12-31-09-hoover-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"630\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections has recently acquired a new letter to add to the Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection.\u00a0 This letter, written by Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello in 1816, highlights Hunt\u2019s close relationship with the noted composer and serves as a primary example of Hunt\u2019s early correspondence.\u00a0 In it, Hunt talks of visiting Novello and of the gifts<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2009\/12\/17\/it-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-make-presents-to-poets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;\u201cIt is a dangerous thing to make presents to poets\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}