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Robert Southey (1774–1843)

Auteur van The Life of Nelson

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Robert Southey was born on August 12, 1774. In 1788, Southey entered the Westminster school at the expense of his uncle. One year after his admission to Westminster, the French Revolution began. Southey was fifteen years old at the time, and like many young people of his day, he passionately toon meer sympathized with the high ideals of the French cause. During these years, Southey befriended both Charles W. W. Wynn and Grosvenor Charles Bedford. Bedford and Wynn began a publication in 1792, The Flagellant, which Southey later joined as writer and co-editor. He submitted an anonymous article on "Flogging," in which he claimed that the school's disciplinary practice of flogging students was satanic. Dr. Vincent, the headmaster at the school, viewed the essay not as the product of a boy's imagination, but as a direct attack on both the school and the British Constitution. Eventually, Southey came forward and offered his apology, but was nonetheless expelled from school. Southey was of course then refused admission at Christ Church and had to attend Balliol College at Oxford. In order to escape life at Oxford and postpone making his decision to join the clergy, Southey took some time off from school in the autumn of 1793. Southey eventually left Oxford after his second term to be married. Shortly after leaving, he crossed paths with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he formed a friendship which would mold his early life and continue until his later years. In 1794, Southey, Coleridge, and several mutual friends came up with the idea of "Pantisocracy," or "equal rule of all." Their goal was to emigrate to America to practice Pantisocracy by forming a communal, utopian settlement where everyone would live in harmony and brotherhood. In order to raise money for this, Southey and Coleridge joined to write drama and political propaganda, and to write and deliver weekly lectures on politics and history. At this time, they co-wrote the drama entitled "The Fall of Robespierre," which was published by a radical printer at Cambridge under Coleridge's name. This same year Southey wrote Wat Tyler, based on the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. Unfortunately, Wat Tyler was not published, the scheme to emigrate to America to practice "Pantisocracy" never came to fruition, and his friendship with Coleridge became increasingly strained. The relationship deteriorated further when Coleridge and his wife began having marital difficulties. Coleridge eventually left his wife and Southey was forced to support both families. Southey then accepted Charles Wynn's offer to set up an annuity for him if he would study law. Southey began to study law by day and write poetry and prose at night. He drifted entirely away from his legal studies and began to concentrate solely on his writing. Between 1796 and 1805 Southey wrote Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem, Thalaba the Destroyer, Madoc, and several volumes of shorter verse. He also wrote numerous ballads, made frequent contributions to The Monthly Magazine and published the popular Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal. After several years of estrangement from Coleridge, the two poets collaborated on the Devil's Walk in 1799. Although Southey remained a champion of the poor and became an outspoken adversary of slavery, he began to cherish the maintenance of social order. After becoming an outspoken member of the Tory party, Southey's changing views led him to accept a position as Britain's Poet Laureate in 1813, a position that he held for 30 years. Twenty-three years after Wat Tyler was written, it suddenly resurfaced into a highly charged political atmosphere in which an older, more conservative Southey was at the forefront. Upon learning that Southey was the author, his adversaries, such as William Hazlitt and William Smith, seized upon the play as an example of his hypocrisy, while his friends, Wynn, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, defended him vehemently. Despite the effects of Wat Tyler's appearance on Southey's reputation, it sold over 60,000 copies and was reprinted, making it one of his most well-read and commercially successful works. Southey eventually incorporated the play into his complete works in 1838. Although the reappearance of the poem forced Southey to confront the dissipation of his youthful ideals, it did not significantly affect his career as an esteemed poet and writer. Southey remained Poet Laureate of Britain for 30 years, and eventually died in 1843. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Robert Southey

The Life of Nelson (1812) 279 exemplaren
The Cataract of Lodore (1991) — Auteur — 38 exemplaren
Letters from England (1984) 27 exemplaren
Omniana (Centaur Classics) (1969) 14 exemplaren
Poems of Robert Southey (1909) 13 exemplaren
Poems (1895) 11 exemplaren
Joan of Arc, an epic poem (1817) 10 exemplaren
The Remains of Henry Kirke White (1807) — Redacteur — 9 exemplaren
The Book of the Church (1825) 9 exemplaren
History of Brazil (1969) 8 exemplaren
Thalaba the destroyer (1991) 8 exemplaren
Southey's Common-place book (2012) 7 exemplaren
Poems By Robert Southey (1880) 6 exemplaren
The doctor, &c (1848) 6 exemplaren
Nursery Classics: Three Bears (1998) 5 exemplaren
English Seamen (1897) 4 exemplaren
The curse of Kehama (2005) 4 exemplaren
Madoc (2021) 3 exemplaren
Palmerin of England (2010) 3 exemplaren
New Letters of Robert Southey (1965) 2 exemplaren
Poems, 1799 (1997) 2 exemplaren
History of the Peninsular War (2013) 2 exemplaren
The Life Of Wesley (2022) 1 exemplaar
História do Brasil 1 exemplaar
The Cid 1 exemplaar
The annual anthology (1997) 1 exemplaar
Expediton to Orsua 1 exemplaar
CACHINHOS DE OURO 1 exemplaar
select prose (2007) 1 exemplaar
The Story of the Three Bears (2016) 1 exemplaar
Robin Hood: A Fragment (2010) 1 exemplaar
The minor poems 1 exemplaar
Essays, moral and political (1971) 1 exemplaar
New Letters: v. 2 (1989) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Southey, Robert
Geboortedatum
1774-08-12
Overlijdensdatum
1843-03-21
Graflocatie
Crosthwaite Parish Church, Cumbria, England, UK
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Land (voor op de kaart)
England, UK
Geboorteplaats
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Keswick, Cumberland, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
Keswick, Cumberland, England, UK
Opleiding
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Beroepen
poet
translator
essayist
biographer
Relaties
Southey, Caroline Anne (wife)
Warter, John Wood (son-in-law and editor)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1813-1843)
Southey Lectures (Bristol|1979)
Korte biografie
The Southey Lectures, promoted by the Rector and Church Council of Old Bristol Parish Church (Christ Church with St Ewen and All Saints, City), are intended to consider Bristolians who have made a major contribution to the Arts, Literature, Philosophy, Science, Politics and Religion, and are named after Robert Southey, who was baptized in Christ Church in 1774. The first lecture, on Robert Southey and Bristol, was delivered in 1979 and published in 1980.

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I really enjoyed this, but the versification (irregularly long unrhymed iambics in stanzas of varying length) seemed disruptive to me. I'm not sure if blank verse or regular, rhymed stanzas would have been the better choice to improve the poem, but since Shelley took obvious (and copious) influence from this poem for his Revolt of Islam in Spenserian stanzas, I'd bet on the latter. Better, I think, than Southey's Joan of Arc, which was in blank verse. It's easy to see why Southey had the reputation he did at the time, but why is he so neglected today?… (meer)
 
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judeprufrock | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 4, 2023 |
A fun little tale. I liked the poetic version a lot, and found the original, pre-Goldilocks story pretty interesting, especially in regards to the ending.
 
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Faith_Murri | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 9, 2019 |
A fun little tale. I liked the poetic version a lot, and found the original, pre-Goldilocks story pretty interesting, especially in regards to the ending.
 
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Faith_Murri | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 28, 2019 |
Surprisingly good. The verse isn't anything to write home about, but there's an enjoyable story in there; kind of an Arabian Nights thing with a splash of Conan the Barbarian.
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amanda4242 | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 19, 2019 |

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739
Populariteit
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ISBNs
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