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Southey, Robert (1774 - 1843)

Index to poems

  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
Biography: 
  • Carnall, Geoffrey. "Southey, Robert (1774–1843)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011.
Given Name: 
Robert
Family Name: 
Southey
Birth Date: 
August 12, 1774
Death Date: 
March 21, 1843
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : Robert Southey
mother : Margaret Southey
wife : Edith Southey (from 14 Nov. 1795)
son : Herbert Southey
wife : Caroline Southey (from 4 Jun. 1839)
daughter : Isabel Southey
son : Charles Cuthbert Southey
daughter : Edith May Warter
daughter : Bertha Hill
daughter : Kate Southey

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English
German

Religion

Honours

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Romantic
Literary Movement: 
Unknown
Cause of Death: 
Fever
Buried At: 
Crosthwaite churchyard
First RPO Edition: 
1998