Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 52
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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 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... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
solicited Poet Laureate Robert Southey
's opinion on some poems; he advised her to pursue her proper duties, because Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 262 |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | Two previously unknown manuscripts by CB
, a poem of 77 lines and a prose story or fragment of about the same length, recently came to light tipped into a volume of The Remains of... |
| Publishing | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
wrote criticism and reviews since 1947, often anonymously. Between 1956 and 1968 she freelanced at literary journalism and published on a wide range of topics in diverse journals. For the London Magazine, she... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Maria Callcott | Journal of a Voyage to Brazil shared a lead review in the Quarterly with a voyage to the same country by two travellers by Command of his Majesty the King of Bavaria. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 31 (1824): 1 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | SC
's mother, born Sarah Fricker
, had several sisters, two of whom also married prominent poets. One married Robert Lovell
, and another, Edith Fricker
, married Robert Southey
, who became a major... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | Robert Southey
, SC
's uncle by marriage, contributed significantly to her upbringing and education. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. |
| 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. 19-20, 24 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | SC
's father-in-law initially objected to the match, primarily for economic reasons. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 35, 47 |
| Textual Production | Sara Coleridge | It was published anonymously when SC
was just twenty years old, and was initially attributed to Robert Southey
. Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, Henry S. King. 27 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, pp. 1-85. 16 |
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