Selected Poetry of Robert Southwell, SJ (1561?-1595)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2012, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
- The Burning Babe
Notes on Life and Works
- Brown, Nancy Pollard. "Southwell, Robert [St Robert Southwell] (1561–1595)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.
Biographical information
Given name: Robert
Family name: Southwell, SJ
Birth date: 1561?
Death date: 21 February 1595
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Richard Southwell
mother: Bridget Southwell
sister: Mary Banistre
sister: Margaret Sackville
Languages
English
Latin
Education: School at Douay
Religion: Roman Catholic
Honour: Canonized as an English martyr: 1970
Patron: Dorothy Arundell
Literary period: Elizabethan
Occupation: Priest: 1584
Residences
Horsham St. Faith's Norfolk: 1561
Arundel House, the Strand: 1591
Cause of death: Hanging
First RPO edition: 1996-2000
