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