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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Anna Eliza Bray
In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 52
The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...
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...
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
CB solicited Poet Laureate Robert Southey 's opinion on some poems; he advised her to pursue her proper duties, because Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
262
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
Two previously unknown manuscripts by CB , a poem of 77 lines and a prose story or fragment of about the same length, recently came to light tipped into a volume of The Remains of...
Publishing Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR wrote criticism and reviews since 1947, often anonymously. Between 1956 and 1968 she freelanced at literary journalism and published on a wide range of topics in diverse journals. For the London Magazine, she...
Friends, Associates Lady Eleanor Butler
Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Literary responses Maria Callcott
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil shared a lead review in the Quarterly with a voyage to the same country by two travellers by Command of his Majesty the King of Bavaria.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
31 (1824): 1
Family and Intimate relationships Sara Coleridge
SC 's mother, born Sarah Fricker , had several sisters, two of whom also married prominent poets. One married Robert Lovell , and another, Edith Fricker , married Robert Southey , who became a major...
Family and Intimate relationships Sara Coleridge
Robert Southey , SC 's uncle by marriage, contributed significantly to her upbringing and education.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
Instructor Sara Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ensured that his sons received formal schooling, but neglected Sara. Remaining at Greta Hall in her father's absence, she was pushed by her mother early on to study regularly and rigorously.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
19-20, 24
Family and Intimate relationships Sara Coleridge
SC 's father-in-law initially objected to the match, primarily for economic reasons.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
35, 47
When he did come to terms with the union, the couple then had to wait until Henry completed his studies in...
Textual Production Sara Coleridge
It was published anonymously when SC was just twenty years old, and was initially attributed to Robert Southey .
Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, Henry S. King.
27
This work was originally undertaken to assist her brother with his college expenses. However, he...
Friends, Associates Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Christian and political radical, STC associated with William Godwin and Robert Southey . William Wordsworth wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...
Birth Mary Maria Colling
MMC , poet, was born at Tavistock in Devon, one of a large lower-class family.
Anna Eliza Bray told Robert Southey that MMC was born on this day in 1805; but the church record...
Health Mary Maria Colling
Anna Eliza Bray later wrote that her friend had a nervous temperament.
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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In a letter to Robert Southey , Bray reported that Colling admitted to being assailed by envy and malice, on account...

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