Spanish romantic poems biography
Robert Southey was a major English romantic poet, one of the main famous “Lake Poets”. Indeed, together with other famous poets such as William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) he lived and worked in the Lake district in the north of England. He was born in 1774 in Bristol, a city in south west England.Southey was the son of a cloth merchant. He would receive a very assiduous education and be a great reader early on in his childhood. By the age of 15 Southey had already written ambitious epic poems. Because of his promising intelligence, he would be sent to the University of Westminster in London to finish his studies. However, he would mostly be remembered there for his turbulent attitude and his protests against punishments.At Oxford University where he would be placed next, he would continue to despise university courses and would spend all of his time instead of doing class work reading all of German and French literature. This was to make his family greatly unhappy since they had planned for him to have a medical career. However, most importantly, it is while studying at Oxford University that he would become a friend of somebody who would become a great literary figure, and would also become a lake poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834). Together they would try to found a utopian, egalitarian community, which they named Pantisocracy. It was to be situated on the banks of the Susquehanna river in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. The project would ultimately fail but the two poets remained very close. In fact they friendship would grow even stronger when in 1795 Southey married Coleridge’s sister.Between 1795 and 1800, Southey would three times go to Portugal for extensive amounts of time. There he would gather the material necessary for the first draft of his project entitled History of Portugal, which he would never actually complete. Yet as a writer Southey would not only come to distinguish himself particularly within the literary genres of poetry, but also with his biographies. In fact, arguably his most important works consist of the biographies he devoted to the great men of his country. Those included The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson (1813), The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism (1821), The Lives of the Admirals (1833 - 1840) as well as that of William Cowper (1731 - 1800) in a work not surprisingly entitled The Life of William Cowper (1843).In 1803, the Coleridge and Southey families moved together to make their home in a house named Greta Hall in the market town of Keswick in the Lake District in the county of Cumbria in Great Britain. Robert Southey would live there for forty years. It is noteworthy that many famous writers would subsequently visit Greta Hall, including William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834), William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), P.B. Shelley (1792 - 1822), and Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832). Today Greta Hall is a fine Bed and Breakfast.Robert Southey’s poetic inspiration would be varied. In his youth, excited by the French Revolution he would compose various works depicting the glory of France, including the epic poem Joan of Arc, published in 1793. However his forte seems to have been in the narrative poem genre. For example, Thalaba the Destroyer, which would be published in twelve volumes in 1801. But also Roderick the Last of the Goths in 1814.In 1821 Southey would have an argument with Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) about one of his poems. Indeed, in his preface to A Vision of Judgement (1821), which had been written in honor of George III, King of England, he had vehemently attacked Byron’s writings.
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