Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (poet)
Person
Biography
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.
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Item
Sonnet I, circa 1833
Item
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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