Leigh Hunt: a radical journalist and minor poet a well-known literary critic a vital influence on the early Keats encouraged Keats to take himself seriously as a writer cultivating Keats with a taste for liberal politics as well as for the fine arts Leigh Hunt: ❖ a radical journalist and minor poet ❖ a well-known literary critic ❖ a vital influence on the early Keats ❖ encouraged Keats to take himself seriously as a writer ❖ cultivating Keats with a taste for liberal politics as well as for the fine arts