For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.
        (The Battle of Blenheim, 51-54)

1. The Battle of Blenheim
2. God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop
3. My Days among the Dead are Past
4. The Old Man's Complaints. And how he gained them
5. The Well of St. Keyne

Biographical information

Given name: Robert
Family name: Southey
Birth date: 12 August 1774
Death date: 21 March 1843
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Robert Southey
          mother: Margaret Southey
          wife: Caroline Southey (from 4 June 1839)
          wife: Edith Southey (from 14 November 1795)
          son: Charles Cuthbert Southey
          son: Herbert Southey
          daughter: Bertha Hill
          daughter: Isabel Southey
          daughter: Kate Southey
          daughter: Edith May Warter
Languages
          English
          German
Education
          School at Corston
          School at Bristol
          Westminster: April 1788 to 1792
          Balliol College, Oxford: 3 November 1792
          Gray's Inn: 7 February 1797
Religions
          Anglican
          Unitarian
          Deist
Politics
          Tory
          Republican: 1793
Honours
          Poet-laureate-ship: 1813
          D.C.L., Oxford: 14 June 1820
Literary period: Romantic
Occupation: Historian
Residences
          Bath
          Bristol: 12 August 1774
          Westbury: June 1798
          Burton, Hampshire: 1799
          Portugal: April 1800
          Greta Hall, Keswick: 1803 to 21 March 1843
Cause of death: Fever
Buried at: Crosthwaite churchyard
First RPO edition: 1998