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Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest. Robert Southey. Boston: Twayne, 1977. A study of Joan of Arc follows a sketch of Southey’s early life. Chapter 3 assesses his personality and lyrical poetry. The ...
Biography. Although born at Bristol, the son of Robert Southey and Margaret Hill Southey, Robert Southey spent most of his first fourteen years at Bath, in the company of his mother’s half ...
Analysis. Robert Southey’s poetical career proved, indeed, to have been a struggle: His desire to create from impulse and inspiration came into conflict with his duty to earn money from his pen ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Robert Southey himself was a member of the Church of England and the poem is narrated in Christian terms, with the morally good character being an Abbot and mentions of Christ and the Devil.
Robert Southey, an English poet of the Romantic period, was associated with the Lake School, which included such luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth. Though ...
Aug 15, 2024 · SOURCE: “Nationalist Texts and Counter-Texts: Southey's Roderick and the Dissensions of the Annotated Romance,” in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 53, No. 4, March, 1999, pp. 421-51. [ In ...
In fact, Southey did much to free English prose from the labored solemnity of the school of Johnson, Gibbon, and Burke and to develop a medium suited to scholarly exposition, practical controversy ...
In Southey's ironic poem, Old Kaspar, a peasant, discusses the battle with his grandchildren many years after the "famous victory." Thousands of bodies "Lay rotting in the sun," says Kaspar, while ...
Aug 15, 2024 · Claude A. Prance (‘Southey's ‘The Doctor’, The Private Library, Vol. 4:2, 1981) reckoned that Southey was telling the tale of ‘The Doctor’ at least by 1805, and had started to write it ...
Summary. Byron had already mocked Robert Southey in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) and in his dedication to Don Juan, but his ridicule of Southey is at its pinnacle in The Vision of ...
