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Robert Southey Biography

(1774 - 1843)

Related Works

Poetry
1792 Joan of Arc
1801 Thalaba the Destroyer

1805 Madoc
1810 The Curse of Kehama
1816 The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo
1817 Princess Charlotte's Epithalamium and her Elegy
1817 Odes
1821 A Vision of Judgement
1825 A Tale of Paraguay
1829 Sir Thomas More
1829 All for Love
1829 The Pilgrim to Compostella
Plays
1817 Wat Tyler
Collaborations
1794 The Fall of Robespierre
Other
1807 Letters from England: By Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella
1810–19 History of Brazil
1813 Life of Nelson
1814 Roderick the Last of the Goths
1820 Life of Wesley
1824 The Book of the Church
1833 Essays Moral and Political
1823–32 History of the Peninsular War
1833 Lives of the British Admirals
1834–37 The Doctor

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(born Aug. 12, 1774, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland) English poet and prose writer. In youth Southey ardently embraced the ideals of the French Revolution, as did Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he was associated from 1794. Like Coleridge, he gradually became more conservative. About 1799 he devoted himself to writing; later he was obliged to produce unremittingly to support both his and Coleridge's family. In 1813 he was appointed poet laureate. His poetry is now little read, but his prose style is masterly in its ease and clarity, as seen in such works as Life of Nelson (1813), Life of Wesley (1820), and The Doctor (1834–47), a fantastic, rambling miscellany.