Brooks, Marilyn. Letter about Mary Hays to Isobel Grundy.
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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Hays | Thomas Underwood
(of Underwood and Black
's print shop in Fleet Street) agreed to publish a translation by MH
of Ollivier by Jacques Cazotte
(a project suggested to her by Robert Southey
); but this never happened. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvii |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
| Dedications | Margaret Holford | The original is by Dom Manuel José Quintana
. Holford's dedication to Robert Southey
(dated from Sharow Lodge in Ripon on 12 May) Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 537 |
| Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | |
| Textual Features | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
| Publishing | Isabella Lickbarrow | Subscribers included Wordsworth
, Southey
, and De Quincey
, all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth
suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been... |
| Reception | Marie de France | Mary Matilda Betham
on the one hand invented a romantic parentage for MF and related her imaginary life story in a long poem, and on the other hand produced modernised summaries of her lais. A... |
| politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
revelled in her single state and proclaimed herself probably the happiest single woman in England. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 133 |
| Travel | Mary Russell Mitford | On this trip she also visited Bristol and (very briefly) Barnstaple in Devon. In Bath she was haunted (like many visitors after her) by the idea of Jane Austen
characters, and at Bristol by... |
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