Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Matilda Betham
The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue
's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the...
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...
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, pp. 1-85.
16
Bray...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes from Spenser
, and the first chapter from Johnson
's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Pearson
None of the poems here was included in the volume of 1790; several of them bear the date of 1795, like the closing Rosamond
to Henry the Second
, During her Confinement at Woodstock...
Intertextuality and Influence
Caroline Bowles
An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
.
Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II
of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France
. The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Taylor
Poetry and Reality was written, so the Critical Review maintained, to combat the deistic tendencies of Robert Southey
's juvenile writings.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 274-5
The Squire's Pew, probably JT
's best-known poem...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...
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
Ann Taylor Gilbert
Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons.
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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...
