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 Author name 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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 52
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...
Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
She sent Poet Laureate Robert Southey copies of both novels. He replied in a letter that, although he preferred Fitz of Fitz-Ford, both books were abundantly interesting as to character, situations, and events.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
227
Dedications Anna Eliza Bray
In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 52
The resulting ninety-four letters, dedicated and addressed to Southey , were written between February 1832...
Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
L. E. L. contributed what AEB felt to be an ably-written review to the Literary Gazette.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
328
In a letter dated 21 January 1838, Robert Southey wrote that it was a very agreeable disappointment...
Residence Caroline Bowles
The month after the death of her husband , CB moved back to her family cottage at Lymington in Hampshire.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
xix, 212
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.
103
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Robert Southey 's triple-decker The Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, edited and completed in part by Southey's widow CB , was posthumously published on the heels of conflict among those concerned.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB published the dramatic epic poem Robin Hood, A Fragment, by herself and her late husband, Robert Southey .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
121
Material Conditions of Writing Caroline Bowles
At the time of her marriage to Robert Southey , CB intended to produce a second story collection. She also entertained the idea of adding new pieces to an edition of Solitary Hours. By...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB 's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley , and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Material Conditions of Writing Caroline Bowles
She had composed this poem while caring for Southey . She later maintained that it was inspired by a true story.
Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol.
8
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
210-11
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Bowles
She accused William Howitt of treating Southey unfairly in this book.

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