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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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.
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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.
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Her lover Benjamin Constant defended Morgan from attack, and Morgan's own friend Lady Charleville , who had previously...
Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
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.
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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.
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In a letter dated 21 January 1838, Robert Southey wrote that it was a very agreeable disappointment...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
Robert Southey thought these stories were too sad. In a letter of 17 August 1829 he called Bowles a cruel writer, for you imagine tales which I, with all my love for the writer, and...
Literary responses Jane Taylor
Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...
Literary responses Elizabeth Tollet
ET 's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe (though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad...
Literary responses Melesina Trench
Before publishing MT 's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald . Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole and Robert Southey . He showed...
Literary responses Maria Jane Jewsbury
After reading Phantasmagoria, Wordsworth forwarded it to Robert Southey to review. MJJ 's satire of Southey in First Efforts in Criticism prompted the Poet Laureate to decline. He wrote: The best advice [I] could...
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.
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Literary responses Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV , in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, pp. 57-88.
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In 1821 Alfred Beauchamp , editor of the Magazine, praised...
Material Conditions of Writing Caroline Bowles
At the time of her marriage to Robert Southey , CB intended to produce a second story collection. She also entertained the idea of adding new pieces to an edition of Solitary Hours. By...
Material Conditions of Writing Caroline Bowles
She had composed this poem while caring for Southey . She later maintained that it was inspired by a true story.
Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol.
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, pp. 49-52.
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Other Life Event William Wordsworth
WW was appointed Poet Laureate a couple of weeks after the death of Robert Southey (he had initially declined the position on the grounds that he would find it hard to write to order).
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
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