James Leigh Hunt is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

      Although a fine poet in his own right Hunt is mainly remembered for publishing poetry byKeats,Byron and Shelley. In 1816 Hunt published Keats's sonnet O Solitude in the Examiner and in 1821  La Belle Dame sans Merci in the Indicator.

      Hunt was once held for two years in Horsemonger Lane Gaol for calling the Prince Regent "a fat Adonis of fifty". However, he received frequent visits from his friends and continued to edit the magazine in which the libel had appeared.

      In 1822 Hunt travelled to Italy to be with Byron and Shelly in order to publish his new journal The Liberal. However, within days of his arrival in Italy Shelley drowned and Byron subsequently lost interest in the project.

Hunt was present at the famous cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley on the shore of Via Reggio in 1822. Shelley's heart was removed by Edward Trelawny and initially passed to Hunt who later handed it to Mary Shelley. However, Hunt took a piece of Shelley's jawbone from the cremation and kept it on his desk for the rest of his life.

  It is said that Dickens based the figure of Skimpole in Bleak House  on Hunt.