• Peter Vandyke, Portrait of Robert Southey, Aged 21, 1795. Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer.
  • Southey, Robert, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey with a Memoir, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., c. 1845. Encyclopedia of World Biography.
  • Unlike most of the English Romantics, who wrote predominantly either in verse or in prose, Robert Southey—like his friend and brother-in-law Samuel Taylor…
  • Robert Southey Romantic poet Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774 and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of his time.
  • Robert Southey was an English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose who is chiefly remembered for his association with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...
  • The famous children’s rhyme, What All the World Is Made Of, is the handiwork of Robert Southey, one of the great English poets (1774–1843).
  • Robert Southey was expelled from Westminster School for criticising the practice of flogging in the school magazine.
    • Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Greta Hall, Keswick
    • Robert Southey (1774–1843), Aged 31, John Opie
  • Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.
  • Robert Southey has born in Bristol on August 12, 1774. He is the son of Margaret Hill Southey and her husband, a bankrupt tradesman.