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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | She also at this period met and impressed Robert Southey
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 289 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | At about this time her friends included Robert Southey
, Joanna Baillie
, and Eliza Fletcher
. With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | She met Wordsworth
and Southey
in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 240 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970. 23 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970. 57 |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
may have met the poet George Dyer
through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green, 1891, 2 vols. 1:190, 189 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her biographer William McCarthy, speculating on causes for this reversal of former admiration, mentions Coleridge's painful feelings for his mother and his wife, his leaving the Dissenters for the Church of England, and the predominance... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | In her last years AS
availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern
as a (presumably paid) companion. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 244-6 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Many of her later friends were at least a generation younger than she was. She met many members of the Clapham Sect
in the 1790s, of whom Henry Thornton
and his daughter Marianne
became particularly... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
rarely travelled far from her home in Lymington. After the death of her old nurse in 1824, she lived alone. Alfred H. Miles
speculates that her parents' deaths tended to strengthen her nervous... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | At this time MW
's achievements were admired by Southey
, Coleridge
, and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Robinson
, and more warmly Eliza Fenwick |
| Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
| Health | Mary Maria Colling | Anna Eliza Bray
later wrote that her friend had a nervous temperament. 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. 8 |
| 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, 1989. 19-20, 24 |
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