Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Southey
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Standard Name: Southey, Robert
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly Review. His prose works, for which he was celebrated during his lifetime, were primarily historical, ecclesiastical,and biographical, in addition to travel writing. He also produced translations (from French and Spanish), editions, and anthologies. He enjoyed an excellent reputation in his day, and for his last thirty years of life served as Poet Laureate.
In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Matilda Betham
The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue
's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
The Siege of Valencia, set amid the Christian-Islamic wars of medieval Spain, uses this distance to address modern topics such as national identity, gender issues, and the threat posed by war to the...
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85.
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Bray...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes from Spenser
, and the first chapter from Johnson
's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Pearson
None of the poems here was included in the volume of 1790; several of them bear the date of 1795, like the closing Rosamond
to Henry the Second
, During her Confinement at Woodstock...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Taylor
Poetry and Reality was written, so the Critical Review maintained, to combat the deistic tendencies of Robert Southey
's juvenile writings.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 274-5
The Squire's Pew, probably JT
's best-known poem...
Intertextuality and Influence
Caroline Bowles
An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
.
Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II
of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France
. The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...
Literary responses
Mary Matilda Betham
MMB
said that this book received flattering praises in reviews.
Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights.
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It also brought compliments of some distinguished persons and two tributary effusions from writers from profession: Mr J. (apparently Edward Jerningham
) and...
Literary responses
Mary Matilda Betham
Robert Southey
wrote to MMB
that this volume contains so much of what is really good that I hope the same powers will one day be employed upon something of greater extent.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
104
The Critical...
Literary responses
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
She sent Poet Laureate Robert Southey
copies of both novels. He replied in a letter that, although he preferred Fitz of Fitz-Ford, both books were abundantly interesting as to character, situations, and events.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
227
Literary responses
Anna Eliza Bray
L. E. L.
contributed what AEB
felt to be an ably-written review to the Literary Gazette.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
328
In a letter dated 21 January 1838, Robert Southey
wrote that it was a very agreeable disappointment...