- 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.
- Robert Southey. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. ... The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Volume 2 Robert Southey Full view - 1837.
- 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.
- Southey's literary career commenced in 1794, when he published a volume of poems in conjunction with Robert Lovell, under the names of Moschus and Bion.
- Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774. His father, Robert Southey, was a bankrupt tradesman, and his mother was named Margaret Hill.
- “After Blenheim” by Robert Southey is based on the most famous battle of the Spanish succession (1701-1714), popularly known as the Battle of Blenheim.
- Robert Southey was an English poet and part of the romantic school. He served as poet laureate from 1813 until he died in 1843.
- 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...
- In 1795, however, Southey secretly married Edith Fricker, and common domestic considerations began to dissipate his utopian passions.
