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 regarded as the leader of the "Lake School" of radical...

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 and hundreds of shorter poems--ballads, historical...

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--was both poet and prose writer and one as fully as...

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 work he produced. While his work leans towards the...