“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age.”
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He i…
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culture · English romantic poet (1774–1843) · writer · poet · historian · biographer · politician · translator · literary critic · also Robert Southey, Southey
Born 12 August 1774 · Died 21 March 1843 · Q216838
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2026· 3 entries
“inflaming the turbulent temper of the manufacturer and disturbing the quiet attachment of the peasant to those institutions under which he and his fathers have dwelt in peace.”
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“He wooed Liberty as a youthful lover, but it was perhaps more as a mistress than a bride; and he has since wedded with an elderly and not very reputable lady, called Legitimacy.”
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2023· 1 entry
By Weather Factory, the Southey family are good friends with the fictional Baroness Eva Dewulf, and there are rumours that they adopted her illegitimate child as Abra Southey and presented her as the younger sister to Ro
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2015· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Vol. 42, No. 1, Winter 2011, Robert Southey in Context
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2007· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Robert Southey - The Forgotten Radical
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2005· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy
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1922· 1 entry
The publishing house "Vsemirnaya Literatura" published the first separate edition of Southey's ballads in Russia, compiled by Gumilyov
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1843· 2 entries
Died 1843-03-21.
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“If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
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1839· 1 entry
But he continued to mention Landor's name when generally incapable of mentioning anyone
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1837· 1 entry
Edith died, and Southey remarried, to Caroline Anne Bowles, also a poet, on 4 June 1839
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1835· 1 entry
Southey declined the offer of a baronetcy, but accepted a life pension of £300 a year from Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel
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1826· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1826–1826).
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1821· 1 entry
Southey wrote A Vision of Judgment, to commemorate George III, in the preface to which he attacked Byron who, as well as responding with a parody, The Vision of Judgment (see below), mocked him frequently in Don Juan
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1819· 2 entries
Southey accompanied the Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford, whom Southey nicknamed the “Colossus of Roads” on a tour of inspection of Telford’s works in Scotland
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Gives detailed descriptions of Telford’s engineering projects and records Southey’s own impressions of the Scottish landscape and people
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1817· 3 entries
Southey was confronted with the surreptitious publication of a radical play, Wat Tyler, which he had written in 1794 at the height of his radical period
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Privately proposed penal transportation for those guilty of "libel" or "sedition"
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After he became Poet Laureate, was published, to embarrass him, by his enemies)
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1816· 1 entry
An accusation that Southey strenuously denied
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1813· 2 entries
Career landmark: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1813–1843).
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And was adapted as the 1926 British film Nelson
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1807· 1 entry
And in 1809 started a long association with the Quarterly Review, which provided almost his only income for most of his life
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1800· 1 entry
And on his return settled in the Lake District
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1774· 1 entry
Born 1774-08-12.
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