Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (poet)

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Robert Southey (1774-1843), poet, was born at Bristol on 12 August 1774. He attended schools in Corston and Bristol before entering Westminster School in 1788, from which he was expelled in 1792 for protesting against excessive flogging. He was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1792, where he carried out private studies and did not take a degree. Southey visited Spain in 1795, and Portugal in 1800, before settling at Keswick, where he engaged in compiling and translating Spanish and Portuguese works. He contributed pieces to the Quarterly review from 1808. His poems include 'The Inchcape Rock' and 'After Blenheim'. He died at Greta Hall, Keswick, on 21 March 1843.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Robert Southey: Letters to Neville White and Simon Wilkin

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8462

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Manuscript letters from Robert Southey to Neville White, 24 January 1824 (1), and Simon Wilkin, June 1831-July 1837 (5), with an unfinished review of Wilkin's edition of the Works of Sir Thomas Browne, 1836.

Dates: 1824-1837

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Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Sonnet I, circa 1833

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Parkes 33/1

Scope and Contents A copy of Robert Southey's 'Sonnet I' (1794), beginning 'Go Valentine and tell that lovely maid', undated (possibly 1833 or earlier), possibly in Parkes' hand. The manuscript has minor divergences from the text published in Robert Southey, 'Poems' (Bristol and London, 1797), including the transposition of the second and third quatrains. It is labelled 'These Lines were written and composed by your father and being addressed to your Mother I fancied you might like to have them-he was ever...

Dates: circa 1833

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Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Sir Harry Parkes / Miscellaneous papers

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(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5942

Scope and Contents The letters which form the bulk of the material catalogued here, were written by Sidney Walker over a quarter of a century to several female relations: principally, his mother (who after her husband's death lived at various addresses in London and its suburbs); his mother's sister Maria, who had married William Walker, a solicitor at Thirsk in the North Riding (and probably a brother or cousin of Sidney's father); and his unmarried cousin Margaret, a daughter of Maria Walker. The letters,...

Dates: 1809-1839

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (poet)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Southey: Letters to Neville White and Simon Wilkin

Sonnet I, circa 1833

(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers

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