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  Robert Southey - LoveToKnow 1911
Southey's uncle, the Rev. Herbert Hill, chaplain of the British factory at Lisbon, who had paid for his education at Westminster, determined to send him to Oxford with a view to his taking holy orders, but the news of his escapade at Westminster had preceded him, and he was refused at Christ Church.
Southey's eldest son, Herbert, died in 1816, and a favourite daughter in 1826; Sara Coleridge married in 1829; in 1834 his eldest daughter, Edith, also married; and in the same year Mrs Southey, whose health had long given cause for anxiety, became insane.
Southey, quite early in life, resolved to write a series of epics on the chief religions of the world; it is not surprising that the too ambitious poet failed.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Southey   (2575 words)

  
 Robert Southey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate.
He was born in Bristol to Thomas Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School (from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article condemning flogging) and Balliol College, Oxford (of his time at Oxford Southey was later to say "All I learnt was a little swimming...
Southey's wife, Edith, was the sister of Coleridge's wife.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Southey   (775 words)

  
 Robert Southey
Southey makes little reference to Byron in his letters, but Byron asserts that he was responsible for scandal spread about himself and Shelley.
Southey was not in the highest sense of the word a poet; but if we turn from his verse to his prose we are in a different world; there Southey is a master in his art, who works at ease with grace and skill.
Southey's fame will not rest, as he supposed, on his verse; all his faults are in that -- all his own weakness and all the false taste of his age.
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 Macaulay, Southey's Colloquies on Society: Library of Economics and Liberty
Southey's, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature, and highly cultivated by study, a mind which has exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood.
Southey says that they are, paternal, if a government were necessarily as much superior in wisdom to a people as the most foolish father, for a time, is to the most intelligent child, and if a government loved a people as fathers generally love their children.
Southey might as well say that the duties of the shoemaker are paternal, and that it is an usurpation in any man not of the craft to say that his shoes are bad and to insist on having better.
www.econlib.org /library/Essays/macS1.html   (13688 words)

  
 Southey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southey ward—which includes the districts of Fox Hill, New Parson Cross, Southey, Wadsley Bridge, and part of Old Parson Cross—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England.
Southey (grid reference SK345915) is a former village, now a district and housing estate in the northern part of Sheffield.
It lies to the west of Southey around what used to be a ford across the River Don.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southey   (190 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Robert Southey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called "Lake Poets".
Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries such as William Wordsworth, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity.
He was born in Bristol in 1774 and educated at Westminster School (from which he was expelled) and Balliol College, Oxford.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ro/Robert_Southey   (185 words)

  
 A Biographical Sketch by blupete: Robert Southey (1774-1843).
Southey, generally, was a very organized and industrious researcher and writer,10 with, due to the generosity of a government pension, the leisure to fully pursue his literary interests.
Southey's earlier works, as he was to observe, were written "under the influence of opinions which I have long since outgrown, and repeatedly disclaimed, but for which I have never felt either shame or contrition.
The Southeys were to have nine children, five of whom died young leaving five boys: Robert (the subject of this biographical sketch), Thomas (b.1777), Henry Herbert (b.1783-1865) and Edward.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Southey.htm   (3159 words)

  
 Érudit | RON n32-33 2003 : Chandler : Southey’s “German Sublimity” and Coleridge’s “Dutch Attempt”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey’s public criticism of “The Ancient Mariner” as “a Dutch attempt at German sublimity” is conventionally and all too easily dismissed as a demonstration of his limitations, both as a man and as a poet.
Southey was thus drawing attention to the point in the poem where a crime-curse-redemption story runs into narrative complexities which are never resolved; it was here that the story moved beyond his powers of analysis and sympathy.
Southey was likely to see in the dramatic narration and riddling meanderings of “The Ancient Mariner” an underlying doubt respecting the sort of external agencies that ballads of this kind had previously been constructed around and which (in his view) were necessary to the proper effect of such poems.
www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2003/v/n32-33/009257ar.html   (6065 words)

  
 Robert Southey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey and Coleridge eventually abandoned this plan and instead stayed in England where they concentrated on communicating their radical ideas.
Southey gradually lost his radical opinions and in 1807 he was rewarded by being granted an annual allowance by the Tory government.
In 1813 Robert Southey was appointed poet laureate.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jsouthey.htm   (328 words)

  
 Biographical Note on Robert Southey - Wat Tyler - Electronic Editions - Romantic Circles
With their son showing promise, Southey's family began to plan for him to become a clergyman, enrolling him at the age of fourteen in the Westminster School at the expense of his uncle, the Reverend Herbert Hill.
Southey entrusted the manuscript to his friend and future brother-in-law, Robert Lovell, who, arriving in London, submitted the play to James Ridgeway, a radical printer who had expressed an interest in publishing it.
Southey proceeded to study law by day and write poetry and prose at night, eventually dropping legal study to concentrate entirely on writing.
www.rc.umd.edu /editions/wattyler/contexts/bio.html   (1332 words)

  
 Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy by Paul Dean
Southey made a few close friends, but gained a reputation for indiscipline which came to a head when he published an article in a school newspaper he had helped to start, denouncing floggers as the ministers of Satan.
Southey, however, was repelled by this idea: “I deny the necessity of an established faith, and of a religious establishment.” He considered medicine and the Civil Service, before his imagination was fired by a utopian dream of an island community, self-supporting and self-governing, naturally virtuous and philosophic in outlook.
Southey’s aunt cast him out when he finally nerved himself to tell her of his plans, and to add that, impecunious as he was, he had become secretly engaged.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/apr05/pauldean.htm   (1929 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Reginald Southey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey was a nephew of Romantic poet Robert Southey, and the fifth son of medical doctor Henry Herbert Southey.
Robert Southey, English poet Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 - March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called Lake Poets.
Southey greatly encouraged Dodgson to take up photography; which he then persued for 24 years, becoming the greatest Victorian photographic portraitist.
www.nationmaster.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Reginald-Southey   (442 words)

  
 Robert Southey
Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 - March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called "Lake Poets".
He was born in Bristol to Thomas Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School (from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article condeming flogging) and Balliol College, Oxford (of his time at Oxford Southey was later to say "All I learnt was a little swimming...
Later itterations of the plan moved the commune to Wales, but later, Southey was the first of the group to reject the idea as unworkable.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/robert_southey.html   (292 words)

  
 The Critical Reception of Robert Southey's _Wat Tyler_ - _Wat Tyler_ - Electronic Editions - Romantic Circles
Southey's play having been published earlier would have changed the copyright issues attending his request for an injunction; but even so, an 1817 publication with autograph manuscript standing behind it as proof could not have failed to cause a stir.
Southey has the courage to hold one of these, evidently for the sake of honour, not for the gain; and this it is which exasperates his opponents.
Southey had even attempted in his first years as Poet Laureate to preserve his status as Poet rather than as versifier-for-hire by stating that he would only write on public events when genuinely inspired to do so.
www.rc.umd.edu /editions/wattyler/contexts/reception.html   (1347 words)

  
 SMA | Trevor Jack Thomas Southey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Trevor Southey is a native of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Africa, born in 1940 of immigrant European ancestry.
Southey attended art schools in England and South Africa before coming to the United States in 1965 to attend Brigham Young University (BYU).
This print was part of a series of prints; Southey made each print unique by using the individual elements of art in different places and in different combinations in each one.
www.sma.shs.nebo.edu /southey.html   (636 words)

  
 Robert Southey -- Biography
Southey left Oxford without a degree and for a time was caught up with Coleridge in a project for a pantisocracy, or utopian agricultural community, to be located on the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the United States, on land that had been purchased by Joseph Priestley when he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1794.
Southey's marriage was deeply resented by the aunt who had raised him, and late in 1795, to repair the breach he accompanied his uncle on a diplomatic appointment to Spain.
Mary Shelley and her husband took part all saw Southey as the prime example of literary talent that could be bought.
www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Southey/bio.html   (1040 words)

  
 Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
The ideas in Southey's works emerge from within, just as their thematic material results from the interplay of the external elements of his life and the internal workings of his spirit.
Southey's idealized beings aim to transform humanity's future by challenging viewers to rediscover themselves.
Trevor Southey (shown here with his son, Kevin, at the Louvre) was born in Rhodesia, studied in England and South Africa, and received an MFA from Brigham Young University where he served on the faculty for many years.
www.signaturebooks.com /trevor.htm   (282 words)

  
 Evans: Robert Southey and the Politics of Heroism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey's endorsement of the peasant uprising in such political times marks him as a notable radical, but his work is by no means singular in its themes.
Southey's disdain for British attempts to restore the French monarchy is evident throughout the poem in its characterization of the British forces.
Southey, then, not only presents the British as losing to the French, but as also inferior to them in character; written during a time of British and French conflict, such a presentation seems an endorsement of the French revolutionary project and a critique of British resistance to it.
prometheus.cc.emory.edu /panels/5E/Evans.html   (3754 words)

  
 Caroline Anne Bowles Southey
Southey was well-known for his willingness to help women and working-class poets, so it was not unusual for young writers to ask for his literary advice.
Southey describes this project in quasi-marital terms, oddly anticipating their actual marriage almost twenty years later: "The secret itself would be delightful while we thought proper to keep it; still more so the spiritual union which death would not part.
In 1834 Edith Fricker Southey's mental health deteriorated to such an extent that she had to be committed to an asylum.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/rh/CBS.htm   (666 words)

  
 Robert Southey
Robert Southey was expelled from Westminster School for criticising the practice of flogging in the school magazine.
Southey and his family moved into Greta Hall, Keswick, in 1803, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, he became disillusioned by the progress of the French Revolution, and he was criticised as a political turncoat by the younger generation of Romantic writers, notably in Byron's Don Juan.
www.netpoets.com /classic/biographies/059000.htm   (458 words)

  
 Sean Southey: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey also worked as UNDP's Environment Program Officer in Malawi for two years, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining all aspects of UNDP's environment, energy, and sustainable development portfolio.
Southey was with the Provincial Ministry of Environment and Energy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he served as first as an environmental economist, and then worked in the area of environment policy development.
Southey, who was born in South Africa, moved to Canada at a young age.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Southey_Sean_48521001.htm   (487 words)

  
 Southey
It was renovated in 1961 by the Brazilian government, presumably as a result of Southey's three volume history of the country written between 1810 and 1819.
Southey and his family stayed at Greta House (now a girl's school) until his death on 21 March 1843.
Southey became Poet Laureate in 1813 when Sir Walter Scott declined the post in his favour, but it was a post which he found increasingly irksome.
www.poetsgraves.co.uk /southey.htm   (266 words)

  
 Robert Southey Biography - Poems
The "Lake Poet" Robert Southey was born on August 12, 1774 in Bristol to Thomas Southey and Margaret Hill.
Later the plan called for the commune to move to Wales, however Southey was disgusted by the idea and rejected it.
Southey later married his friend Coleridge's wife's sister, Edith.
www.poemofquotes.com /robertsouthey   (367 words)

  
 Southey Cottage - Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Southey Cottage is located in the tranquil residential area of Upper Claremont, Cape Town, i...
Southey Cottage is located in the tranquil residential area of Upper Claremont, Cape Town, in a sheltered garden with a swimming pool, trampoline and a lovely mountain view.
Southey Cottage has many repeat visitors and has been offering bed and breakfast accommodation for the last 7 years.
www.bookeasysa.com /southey_cottage_lodging.html   (367 words)

  
 Books about the Coleridge and Southey Families of England
These books are biographical in nature and intended to provide the reader with insites into the daily lives of members of these families and indeed a look into life in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This text with revisions by Robert Woof in 1977 and published by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk discusses the families of STC and Robert Southey who both lived at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland in the Lake District of England.
Greta Hall was nicknamed the "Aunt Hill" by the children of these families because there were so many aunts (Sarah Coleridge, Edith Southey and Mary Lovell, the Fricker sisters) all living together under one roof.
www.geocities.com /Athens/4017/southey/books.html   (705 words)

  
 Romanticism On the Net 9 (February 1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey's output remains impressive and his range of poetic genres and sub-genres is some indication of the virtuosity and facility of the poet often working within fashionable parameters or upon the borders of metrical experiment.
Southey does not exactly blame Old England for this situation, nor does he praise it wholeheartedly, he is content to tell the story plainly and let the reader draw his or her conclusions, which are not difficult to come to.
Southey's political stridency and un-Hellenic sententiousness coupled with his borrowings from the classical models differs tonally and stylistically from the inscripsive Wordsworthian voice of the mid to late 1790s.
users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/southeyLB.html   (12165 words)

  
 Robert Southey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southey, der Sohn eines Leinwandhändlers, besuchte die Westminster School, von der er aber nach vier Jahren verwiesen wurde, da er einen Artikel gegen die körperliche Züchtigung von Schülern, in der von ihm begründeten Zeitschrift "The Flagellant" erscheinen ließ.
In jungen Jahren war Southey ausgesprochen rebellisch und ein begeisterter Anhänger der Französischen Revolution, wie sein 1792 geschriebenes Gedicht "Joan of Arc" belegt.
1800 bis 1801 ist Southey wieder in Portugal.
www.biologie.de /biowiki/Robert_Southey   (389 words)

  
 The Literary Gothic | Robert Southey
Associated with the "Lake School" of poets who wrote of, and lived in, the rural "Lake District" of northern England; more famous members of that group include William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.
Southey came to be much criticized by his younger contemporaries for the abandonment of youthful radicalism and the embrace of Tory conservatism.
He is credited, not quite accurately, with creating the popular children's tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"; while he did write what became the most canonical version of the tale, he was drawing on extant folktale.
www.litgothic.com /Authors/southey.html   (161 words)

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