The Examiner ,1818-1822, Part III

These volumes of the Examiner consolidate its move, in its second decade, towards literary rather than political comment.

In 1818 Hunt reviews Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and vigorously defends Shelley against an attack by the Quarterly Review on both the poem and Shelley's views in general.

Hunt continues his support of the poet throughout the following years, reviewing Rosalind and Helen (1819), Adonis, or Elegy on the Death of Mr Keats (1822), The Cenci (1820) and Prometheus Unbound (1822) among others.

In 1819 Hunt reviews Charles Lamb's Works, Hazlitt's 'Letter to William Gifford' and Byron's Don Juan.

Lamb himself, lauded by Hunt as one of Britain's finest literary critics, becomes a regular contributor to the paper.

In 1822 Hunt publishes Keat's Lines Written in the Scottish Highlands to correct their adulteration in the New Monthly.