SOURCE: “Southey's Early Writings and the Revolution,” in The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 19, 1989, pp. 181-96.
In the following essay, Raimond argues that Southey's early poems were more important than current critics believe in initiating the era of Romanticism in poetry, discussing how Wat Tyler and Joan of Arc reflect the young poet's republican idealism and sympathies for the French Revolution.
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