Art. XX – A Day by the Fire, – Poetically and Practically Considered

First published in The Reflector, II, October 1811–March 1812 (issued 23 March 1812), pp. 400–19. On The Reflector, see headnote above, p. 134. This essay gives one a sense of the subjective, familiar style Hunt would use in The Indicator and that Lamb would adapt in his ‘Elia’ essays; see Kenneth E. Kendall, Leigh Hunt’s ‘Reflector’ (Paris: Mouton, 1981), pp. 56–8.