- Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.
- The other was Coleridge, then of Cambridge, two years Southey’s senior and, like him, a budding poet and enthusiastic republican and revolutionary fellow traveler.
- Southey also did translations, edited the works of Thomas Chatterton , completed the epic Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), and worked on the epic poem Madoc (1805).
- Southey has long been eclipsed by Wordsworth and Coleridge, although some of his shorter poems were familiar to many readers until the late 20th century.
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- 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 has born in Bristol on August 12, 1774. He is the son of Margaret Hill Southey and her husband, a bankrupt tradesman.
- In 1800 Southey again accompanied his uncle abroad, this time to Lisbon, where the uncle held the office of chaplain to the British embassy.
- Robert Southey was an independently minded young man who was expelled from Westminster School for opposing flogging.
- 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.