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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | Robert Southey
wrote to MMB
that this volume contains so much of what is really good that I hope the same powers will one day be employed upon something of greater extent. qtd. in Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 104 |
| Literary responses | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After reading Phantasmagoria, Wordsworth
forwarded it to Robert Southey
to review. MJJ
's satire of Southey
in First Efforts in Criticism prompted the Poet Laureate to decline. He wrote: The best advice [I] could... |
| 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. qtd. in Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884. 227 |
| Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray | |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939. 172 |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | Robert Southey
thought these stories were too sad. In a letter of 17 August 1829 he called Bowles a cruel writer, for you imagine tales which I, with all my love for the writer, and... |
| 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 , 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 49-52. 51 Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 210-11 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Ethel M. Arnold | EA presented a series of twelve lectures on the Lake PoetsRobert SoutheyWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge
at Mount Holyoke College, where she had delivered a lecture on the political state of England in 1910. “Department Notes: English Literature”. The Mount Holyoke, Vol. 20 , 1911, p. 576, https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Mount_Holyoke/wV0hAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1. |
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