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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 | 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, 5 series. 5th ser. 4 (1816): 274-5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | 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 | 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 | Mary Maria Colling | Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare
(the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry. 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. 16 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | 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 | 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
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 103 |
| 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 | |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
| Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights. 7 |
| Literary responses | Jane Taylor | Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in... |
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