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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 | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | In her last years AS
availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern
as a (presumably paid) companion. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 244-6 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Many of her later friends were at least a generation younger than she was. She met many members of the Clapham Sect
in the 1790s, of whom Henry Thornton
and his daughter Marianne
became particularly... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
rarely travelled far from her home in Lymington. After the death of her old nurse in 1824, she lived alone. Alfred H. Miles
speculates that her parents' deaths tended to strengthen her nervous... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | At this time MW
's achievements were admired by Southey
, Coleridge
, and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Robinson
, and more warmly Eliza Fenwick |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 69, 70 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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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