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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Two days later, AEB
briefly met Robert Southey
for the first time in person in London. They had been corresponding for some years after he received a review copy of her novel The Protestant. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 52 Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884. 292-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Four years later, when Southey
's health was in decline, his recently-married second wife, the poet Caroline Bowles
, struck up a correspondence with AEB
. This relationship by letter lasted for fourteen years, although... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Maria Colling | It was, said Bray, four or five years after their first meeting before Colling took the decisive action of revealing some of her poems. Bray made contact for her with Caroline Bowles
as well as... |
| Friends, Associates | Agnes Strickland | They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell
, Robert Southey
, Charles Lamb
, editor William Jerdan
, and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland
, Jane |
| Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Regency England GS
met Coleridge
, Southey
, and Byron
. Jane Austen
, however, made a point of avoiding her. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 74, 76 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | She also at this period met and impressed Robert Southey
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 289 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | At about this time her friends included Robert Southey
, Joanna Baillie
, and Eliza Fletcher
. With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | She met Wordsworth
and Southey
in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 240 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970. 23 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970. 57 |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
may have met the poet George Dyer
through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green, 1891, 2 vols. 1:190, 189 |
| Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
| 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, 1831, pp. 1-85. 8 |
| 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, 1989. 19-20, 24 |
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