Robert Southey

Southey, Robert - souˈthē, sŭthˈē, 1774–1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a friendship with Coleridge and joined with him in a plan for an American utopia along the Susquehanna River that was never actualized. Southey married in 1795, made several trips to Portugal, and Read More...

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Robert Southey: The Critical Heritage
by Lionel Madden. 492 pgs.

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each vlume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling the student or researcher to read the material themselves.

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Preface

Contents

Preface

Preface

Preface

Introduction

Note on the Text

The Fall of Robespierre

1: Unsigned Review, Critical Review

3: A Bristol View of Southey

2: Unsigned Notice, British Critic

4: Wordsworth, from a Letter to William Matthews

Joan of Arc

5: John Aikin, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

6: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

7: Lamb, from a Letter to Coleridge

8: Unsigned Notice, Monthly Magazine

9: From an Unsigned Review, Analytical Review

10: Coleridge, from Three Letters

Poems by Robert Southey

11: Coleridge, from Two Letters

12: John Aikin, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

13: Parodies in the Anti-Jacobin

14: Lamb, Letter to Southey

Thalaba the Destroyer

15: Unsigned Review, British Critic

16: Unsigned Review, Monthly Mirror

17: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Magazine

18: Francis Jeffrey, Unsigned Review, Edinburgh Review

19: William Taylor, Unsigned Review, Critical Review

Amadis of Gaul

20: Walter Scott on Southey as Translator, Edinburgh Review

21: From an Unsigned Review, British Critic

Madoc

22: Wordsworth, from Two Letters to Sir George Beaumont

23: Dorothy Wordsworth, from a Letter to Lady Beaumont

24: John Ferriar, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

25: From an Unsigned Review, Imperial Review

26: From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

27: From an Unsigned Review, Literary Journal

28: From an Unsigned Review, General Review of British and Foreign Literature

Metrical Tales and Other Poems

29: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

30: William Taylor, Unsigned Review, Annual Review

31: From an Unsigned Review, Universal Magazine

Specimens of the Later English Poets

Letters from England

32: Francis Jeffrey, Unsigned Review, Edinburgh Review

33: Christopher Lake Moody, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

34: Southey as Editor, Cabinet

The Remains of Henry Kirke White

The Chronicle of the Cid

35: Coleridge, from a Letter to Humphry Davy

36: Mrs Thrale on Southey

37: Byron, Satire in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

38: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Mirror

The Curse of Kehama

39: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

40: John Foster, Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

41: From an Unsigned Review, Literary Panorama

The History of Brazil

42: From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

43: Joseph Lowe, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

44: Shelley on Southey

45: Byron on Southey

46: Henry Crabb Robinson on Southey

47: James Smith, Parody of Southey

48: Walter Scott Recommends Southey as Poet Laureate

The Life of Nelson

49: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

50: From an Unsigned Review, British Critic

51: From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

Roderick, the Last of the Goths

52: From an Unsigned Review, Theatrical Inquisitor

53: John Herman Merivale, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

54: Grosvenor Charles Bedford, Unsigned Review, Quarterly Review

55: John Taylor Coleridge, Unsigned Review, British Critic

56: Lamb, from a Letter to Southey

57: From an Unsigned Review, Christian Observer

58: From an Unsigned Review, British Review

Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814

59: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

60: From an Unsigned Review, Scourge

61: Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

Odes to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and His Majesty the King of Prussia

62: From an Unsigned Review, British Critic

The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo

63: From an Unsigned Review, Critical Review

64: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

65: From an Unsigned Review, Augustan Review

66: Josiah Conder, Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale

67: Francis Jeffrey, Unsigned Review, Edinburgh Review

68: William Hazlitt, Unsigned Review, Examiner

69: From an Unsigned Review, Augustan Review

70: Unsigned Notice, New Monthly Magazine

71: James Hogg, Parody in the Poetic Mirror

Wat Tyler

72: William Hone, Reformists' Register

73: William Hazlitt, Unsigned Review, Examiner

74: From a Debate in the House of Commons

75: From an Unsigned Review, Black Dwarf

76: Unsigned Notice, Literary Gazette

77: Byron, from a Letter to John Murray

78: Southey Satirized: the Changeling

A Letter to William Smith, Esq., M. P

79: Leigh Hunt, 'Extraordinary Case of the Late Mr. Southey', Examiner

80: Unsigned Notice, Monthly Review

81: Unsigned Notice, New Monthly Magazine

82: George Ticknor Meets Southey

83: Coleridge on Southey

84: Byron, Dedication of Don Juan

85: Thomas Love Peacock on Southey

86: ‘The Nine-Pin of Reviews, ’ Byron on Southey

The Life of Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism

87: Unsigned Notice, Monthly Magazine

88: A Methodist View

89: John Gibson Lockhart, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

90: From an Unsigned Review, Literary Gazette

A Vision of Judgement

91: From an Unsigned Review, Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review

92: Dorothy Wordsworth, from a Letter to Mrs Clarkson

93: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

94: Byron, the Two Foscari

95: Southey Satirized: Peter Pindar's Ghost

96: Byron's Vision of Judgment

History of the Peninsular War

97: From an Unsigned Review, Literary Gazette

98: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Censor

99: From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

100: Wordsworth, from a Letter to Southey

101: From an Unsigned Review, Universal Review

The Book of the Church

102: From an Unsigned Review, British Critic

103: From an Unsigned Review, Examiner

104: William Hazlitt, the Spirit of the Age

A Tale of Paraguay

105: From an Unsigned Review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

106: From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review

107: William Benbow, a Scourge for the Laureate

108: Thomas Love Peacock, 'Fly-By-Night'

109: William Hazlitt on Southey's Prose Style

110: John Henry Newman on Southey's Epics

Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

111: Wordsworth, from a Letter to George Huntly Gordon

112: From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Review

113: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Unsigned Review, Edinburgh Review

114: From an Unsigned Review, Fraser's Magazine

115: John Stuart Mill on Southey

116: Bulwer-Lytton on Southey

The Doctor

117: John Gibson Lockhart, Unsigned Review, Quarterly Review

118: Henry Crabb Robinson on the Doctor

119: Thomas Carlyle Meets Southey

120: George Ticknor, Reunion with Southey

121: Evaluation by Henry Crabb Robinson

122: Herman Merivale on Southey's Poetry, Edinburgh Review

123: Reminiscences by Thomas De Quincey

124: Wordsworth's Epitaph

125: Lord Shaftesbury on Southey's Character

126: Wordsworth on Southey and Coleridge

127: Joseph Cottle on Southey in Early Life

128: John Anster, Unsigned Review, North British Review

129: John Henry Newman on Southey's Epics

130: Charlotte Brontë on Southey

131: Walter Savage Landor, Fraser's Magazine

132: John Gibson Lockhart and Whitwell Elwin, Quarterly Review

133: William Bodham Donne, Edinburgh Review

134: Walter Bagehot on Southey

135: Nathaniel Hawthorne on Southey

136: 'A Cold Man', Samuel Rogers on Southey

137: Southey as Essayist and Reviewer

138: Southey's Character: a Tribute from Thackeray

139: George Borrow on Southey

140: Lewis Carroll Parodies Southey

141: Thomas Carlyle's Reminiscences of Southey

142: John Dennis on Southey's Prose

143: Gerard Manley Hopkins on the Versification of Thalaba

144: Edward Dowden on Southey

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2 .

Robert Southey and His Age: The Development of a Conservative Mind
by Geoffrey Carnall. 238 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

I Introduction

Ii Jacobin

Iii Tory

Iv Apostate?

Appendix a Southey's Religious Beliefs After 1811

Index
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Select Prose of Robert Southey
by Robert Southey, Jacob Zeitlix. 436 pgs.

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

SELECTIONS

The Library

Scenes from the Lake Country

The Doctor

Life of Bayard

Siege of Zaragoza (1808)

The Uprising at Marvam

System of the Jesuits in Paraguay

The Manufacturing System

Opinions and Reflections from The Common-Place Books
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The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
by Robert Southey, Ernest Rhys. 271 pgs.

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Chapter I

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Index
5 .

Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands in the Autumn of 1815
by Robert Southey. 273 pgs.

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British Conquistadors and Aztec Priests: The Horror of Southey's Madoc, in Philological Quarterly
by Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar. 26 pgs.

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Transatlantic Consumptions: Disease, Fame, and Literary Nationalisms in the Davidson Sisters, Southey, and Poe, in Studies in the Literary Imagination
by Clark Lawlor. 18 pgs.

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Wordsworthian Southey: The Fashioning of a Reputation, in Wordsworth Circle
by David Chandler. 5 pgs.

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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Chap. 7 "Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and The Curse of Kehama")
by Balachandra Rajan. 268 pgs.

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Spanning nearly two & a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation, Balachandra Rajan tracks this imperial presence through a wide range of literary & ideological sites. In so doing, he explores from a postcolonial vantage point collusions of gender, commerce, & empire-while revealing the tensions, self-deceptions, & conflicts at work within the English imperial design. Rajan begins with the Portuguese poet Camoes, whose poem celebrating Vasco da Gama's passage to India becomes, according to its eighteenth-century English translator, the epic of those who would possess India. He closely examines Milton's treatment of the Orient & Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, the first English literary work on an Indian subject. Texts by Shelley, Southey, Mill, & Macaulay, among others, come under careful scrutiny, as does Hegel's significant impact on English imperial discourse. Comparing the initial English representation of its actions in India (as a matter of commerce, not conquest) & its contemporaneous treatment of Ireland, Rajan exposes contradictions that shed new light on the English construction of a subaltern India. Giving postcolonial thought a historical dimension, Under Western Eyes also places literary history in new perspective through postcolonial readings. It will interest scholars of cultural history, particularly British imperial history, & those engaged with postcolonial, literary, subaltern, South Asian, & cultural studies.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Preliminary Navigations

I the Lusiads and the Asian Reader

2: Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some Thoughts on Milton's India

3: Appropriating India: Dryden's Great Mogul

4: James Mill and the Case of the Hottentot Venus

5: Hegel's India and the Surprise of Sin

6: Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India

7: Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and the Curse of Kehama

8: Understanding Asia: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

9: Macaulay: the Moment and the Minute

Afterword: from Center to Circumference

Notes

Index
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Medievalism in England ("'Revisiting Cramalot': An Arthurian Theme in the Correspondence of William Taylor and Robert Southey" begins on p. 143)
by Leslie J. Workman. 314 pgs.

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Medievalism - the whole spectrum of post-medieval response to the middle ages -is now accepted as a vital key to the understanding of Western culture and society from 1500 to the present, pervading every aspect of our time, from the popularto the scholarly and artistic. Studies in Medievalism, now published annually, is the one series to provide a regular forum for discussion of issues related to medievalism. This volume is devoted to medievalism in England, appropriately, since England has always played a central part in the development of medievalism. Contributors from England, Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States deal with topics ranging from 16th-century antiquarianism to 20th-century detective fiction.Contributors: D.R. WOOLF, DENNIS O'BRIEN, PETER HADORN, A. CAMERON AIRHEART, MARTIN WALSH, R.J.SMITH, ROGER SIMPSON, RAYMOND CHAPMAN, CLARE SIMMONS, THOMAS COOKSEY, RENATE HAAS, YURI FUWA, ANTHONY HARRISON, ROBERT BURTON, EDWIN CHRISTIAN, BLAKE LINDSY, MARC BAER.

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Studies in Medievalism

Studies in Medievalism

Acknowledgments

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Editorial: the New Studies in Medievalism

The Dawn of the Artifact: the Antiquarian Impulse in England, 1500-1730

Notes

Lord Berners' Huon of Burdeux: the Survival of Medieval Ideals in the Reign of Henry VIII

Notes

The Two Noble Kinsmen and the Problem of Chivalry

Medieval Heretics and Cromwell's Protectorate

Notes

St. Martin in the City: the Lord Mayor's Show of 1702

Notes

From Medievalism to Historicism: Representations of History in the Gothic Novel and Historical Romance

Notes

Antiquarian or Bibliographer? the Dilemma of Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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Cobbett, Catholic History, and the Middle Ages

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"Revisiting Cramalot": an Arthurian Theme in the Correspondence of William Taylor and Robert Southey

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Malory's Morte Darthur in Tennyson's Library

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Last Enchantments: Medievalism and the Early Anglo-Catholic Movement

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The Central Man of the World: the Victorian Myth of Dante

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"Iron-Worded Proof": Victorian Identity and the Old English Language

Notes

Note of F. J. Furnivall

Notes

Medievalism and the Ideologies of Victorian Poetry

Notes

The "Defence of Lancelot": Rossetti's Quest for "God's Graal"

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Medieval Arthurian Motifs in the Modernist Art and Poetry of David Jones

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Revitalizing an Old Tradition: The "Organic" Writings of Raymond Williams and John Fowles

The Habit of Detection: the Medieval Monk as Detective in the Novels of Ellis Peters

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Essay Review the Memory of the Middle Ages: from History of Culture to Cultural History

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Notes on Contributors
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Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey
by Alfred Cobban. 270 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

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Chapter I Fundamental Ideas Of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter II Edmund Burke And the Heritage of Locke

Chapter III Burke: Basis of Political Theory

Chapter IV Burke and the Origins of the Theory Of Nationality

Chapter V Wordsworth and Nationality

Chapter VI The Political Philosophy of Coleridge

Chapter VII The Lake Poets and Social Reform

Chapter VIII The State and Religion

Chapter IX The Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century

Bibliographical Note

Index
12 .

Ten Master Historians (Chap. VI "Robert Southey (1774-1843)")
by L. M. Angus-Butterworth. 184 pgs.

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Illustrations

Chapter I: The Changing Conception Of History

Chapter II: David Hume (1711-1776)

Chapter III: Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Chapter IV: Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

Chapter V: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Chapter VI: Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Chapter VII: William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)

Chapter VIII: Lord Macaulay (1800-1859)

Chapter IX: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)

Chapter X: John Richard Green (1837-1883)

Chapter XI: Sir Winston Churchill., K.G. (Born 1874)

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The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism (Chap. 5 "Southey")
by Lawrence H. Houtchens, Carolyn W. Houtchens. 366 pgs.

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Abbreviations in References

1: William Blake

2: Charles Lamb

3: Hazlitt

4: Scott

5: Southey

6: Thomas Campbell

7: Thomas Moore

8: Walter S. Landor

9: Leigh Hunt

10: Thomas De Quincey

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The Poets Laureate (Chap. 11 "Robert Southey")
by Kenneth Hopkins. 295 pgs.

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I: The Poets Laureate

1: Before the Laureateship: Jonson and Davenant

2: The First Laureate: John Dryden

3: Thomas Shadwell

4: Nahum Tate

5: Nicholas Rowe

6: Laurence Eusden

7: Colley Cibber

8: William Whitehead

9: Thomas Warton

10: Henry James Pye

11 Robert Southey

12: William Wordsworth

13: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

14: Alfred Austin

15: Robert Bridges

16: John Masefield

II: Selections from the Works Of the Poets Laureate

Ben Jonson

Sir William Davenant

John Dryden

Thomas Shadwell

Nahum Tate

Nicholas Rowe

Laurence Eusden

Colley Cibber

William Whitehead

Thomas Warton

Henry James Pye

Robert Southey

William Wordsworth

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Austin

Robert Bridges

John Masefield

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