• Peter Vandyke, Portrait of Robert Southey, Aged 21, 1795. Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer.
  • 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 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 (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet and writer of the Romantic school.
  • Robert Southey has born in Bristol on August 12, 1774. He is the son of Margaret Hill Southey and her husband, a bankrupt tradesman.
  • 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 born in Bristol, the son of a draper. He was educated at Westminster School, from which he was expelled for writing an article criticising flogging.
  • Each progressive era of poets and writers tried to speak in a more common, less artificial style, even though by today’s standards Robert Southey sounds stilted.
  • Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic era, a period of great literary and intellectual ferment that emphasized emotion, imagination...