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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 149 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | In reference to the whole book, the Athenæum reviewer remarked that while Southey
remained a favourite writer his Muse, as she appears in this volume—like our own sense of appreciation perhaps—is no longer in her... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the... |
| 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 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| 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 | 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 | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights. 7 |
| 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 | 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. qtd. in Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 104 |
| 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. qtd. in Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884. 227 |
| 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... |
| 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. 8 , 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 49-52. 51 Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 210-11 |
| Occupation | Ethel M. Arnold | EA presented a series of twelve lectures on the Lake PoetsRobert SoutheyWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge
at Mount Holyoke College, where she had delivered a lecture on the political state of England in 1910. “Department Notes: English Literature”. The Mount Holyoke, Vol. 20 , 1911, p. 576, https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Mount_Holyoke/wV0hAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1. |
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