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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 |
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| Other Life Event | William Wordsworth | WW
was appointed Poet Laureate a couple of weeks after the death of Robert Southey
(he had initially declined the position on the grounds that he would find it hard to write to order). Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols. 2: 558-9, 559n4 |
| politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
revelled in her single state and proclaimed herself probably the happiest single woman in England. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 1: 133 |
| Author summary | Caroline Bowles | CB
was a nineteenth-century poet, essayist, and writer of prose fiction. She published extensively in periodicals, particularly Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and her works were often collected in volume form. Her verse is sometimes sentimental... |
| Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
| Publishing | Anna Seward | She had herself carefully revised her twelve manuscript volumes of copies, and had left them to a publisher. Scott (himself among her correspondents) said he would not help to perpetuate such gossip as the letters... |
| Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | The work bears a dedication, dated at London on 10 April 1828, to Princess Augusta Sophia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 671 |
| Publishing | Mary Robinson | MR
began publishing satirical odes in the Morning Post; she also succeeded Robert Southey
as its poetry editor. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xiii Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994. 146 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64. 34 |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey
, hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Most of the contents had first appeared in Blackwood's. qtd. in Hickok, Kathleen. “’Burst Are the Prison Bars’: Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation”. Romanticism and Women Poets, edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, pp. 192-13. 200 Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18. 7 |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Between April 1824 and May 1829 the stories in this volume (signed C and A) had been serialized in Blackwood's. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 255 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. 1: 14, 17, 24 |
| Publishing | Isabella Lickbarrow | Subscribers included Wordsworth
, Southey
, and De Quincey
, all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth
suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been... |
| Publishing | Anne Grant | Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie
, Felicia Hemans
, Robert Southey
, William Wordsworth
, Lady Bessborough
, her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, the minor poet Lady Dick
, Elizabeth Hamilton |
| 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... |
| Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 220 |
| Reception | Marie de France | Mary Matilda Betham
on the one hand invented a romantic parentage for MF and related her imaginary life story in a long poem, and on the other hand produced modernised summaries of her lais. A... |
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