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Occupation. Poet, historian, biographer and essayist. Robert Southey ( / ˈsaʊði / or / ˈsʌði /; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.
Robert Southey was an English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose who is chiefly remembered for his association with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, both of whom were leaders of the early Romantic movement.
Southey has been called the architect and chief practitioner of a “Georgian style” in prose, a style that is pure and practical, in contrast to the ponderous and ornate solemnity of the likes of Samuel Johnson or Edward Gibbon or the rhetorical overkill of Edmund Burke.
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic era, a period of great literary and intellectual ferment that emphasized emotion, imagination, and individualism. His work often explored historical and mythological themes, drawing inspiration from classical literature and medieval romances.
May 7, 2017 · Charlotte Brontë was never one to sit on her laurels, so she determined to seek an expert opinion on whether her poetry was good or not, and whether she should persevere with it. She turned to the top expert she could think of, the poet laureate Robert Southey.
Robert Southey, (born Aug. 12, 1774, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland), English poet and prose writer. In youth Southey ardently embraced the ideals of the French Revolution, as did Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he was associated from 1794.
Southey was a prolific and influential poet, essayist, historian, travel-writer, biographer, translator and polemicist. His experimental poetry paved the way for writers such as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and – later in the nineteenth century – Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson.
