Robert Southey is less well known than Coleridge and Wordsworth, but he was the lynchpin of this glittering group of talented young idealists.
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Southey was a prolific and influential poet, essayist, historian, travel-writer and biographer. His poetry paved the way for writers such as Lord Byron, Percy...
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The original, by Robert Southey, is "The Old Man's Comforts, and how he gained them", the parody, Lewis Carroll's "You are Old, Father William."
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Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters. by WA Speck. 305pp, Yale, £25. Robert Southey: bard or bastard? Lord Byron had the answer: he called...
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Ten years before she would publish Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë sent a poem to poet laureate Robert Southey asking for his opinion.
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Special Collections & Archives is pleased to announce the launch of an exhibit honouring English Poet Laureate Robert Southey (1774-1843) in the Doris Lewis...
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Author Robert Southey, who wrote Goldilocks and the Three Bears, is selling the beautiful, thatched cottage in Dorset which the childhood...
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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body,” wrote the poet Robert Southey, who died in 1843. Some two centuries later,...
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Punctuation delayed, but not denied: A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë at Poets' Corner in the celebrated London church finally...
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Recreational nitrous oxide use is rising among some teens, but we've been huffing laughing gas for centuries. And certainly not at the...
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