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.
Oil painting of Robert Southey from the waist up. He is wearing a black jacket and a white shirt underneath, and he is looking slightly toward the left.

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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
That year Dyer also recommended ABC 's poems to Joseph Cottle of Bristol, and two years later, by May 1799, he proposed to supply Robert Southey with something by ABC , and something by Amelia Opie
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB published the dramatic epic poem Robin Hood, A Fragment, by herself and her late husband, Robert Southey .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Ham
It was dedicated to the poet Margaret Holford Hodson (who was at this time seriously ill), and was apparently published by August.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 203
Joanna Baillie's editor Judith Bailey Slagle dates Baillie's letter about this...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB 's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley , and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Textual Production Celia Fiennes
CF 's travel writing was first publicly mentioned when Robert Southey quoted it in his Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores (About Everything; or, Leisure Hours) as the work of a lady.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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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.
Brooks, Marilyn, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Mary Hays to Isobel Grundy. 19 Oct. 1999.
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
A second section of the Commonplace Book is entitled Literature and Art (and covers Southey , Arnold and Thackeray ); a third section is headed Notes on Art.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Bowles
She accused William Howitt of treating Southey unfairly in this book.
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...
Violence Anna Letitia Barbauld
These young men joked together about inflicting physical violence on ALB : Coleridge vowed to cut her to the Heart; Southey wrote that Lamb ought to set fire to her wig (a fictional object...
Wealth and Poverty Caroline Bowles
Southey left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List pension of £200. It appears that the pension was...
Wealth and Poverty Caroline Bowles
In later years, CB frequently edited her will and always expected to add some matters of trifling moment which may thereafter occur.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Among the bequests, she set aside an annuity of £30 for her...

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