INTRODUCTION.
It was in 1824 that Robert Southey, then fifty years
old, published “Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies
on the Progress and Prospects of Society,” a
book in two octavo volumes wi...
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A contemporary of the great poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Robert Southey (1774-1843) is one of the best known of the unread poets; that is, his name is better known than the wo...
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Robert Southey (Byron correctly, if scathingly, rhymed the name with "mouthey") presents a paradox. Arguably the most prolific, inventive, and diversified of the English Romantics, he was early regard...
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Unlike most of the English Romantics, who wrote predominantly either in verse or in prose, Robert Southey--like his friend and brother-in-law Samuel Taylor Coleridge and, to some extent, Walter Scott-...
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Robert Southey, today the least known of the Romantic "Lake Poets," was originally the most prominent. He was also among the most prolific figures of his generation. Having written five major epics an...
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Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Robert Southey
Robert Southey