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Southey, Robert
Robert Southey (; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is remembered especially for the poem " After Blenheim" and the original version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Life Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in ''The Flagellant'', a magazine he originated,Margaret Drabble ed: ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (6th edition, Oxford, 2000), about criticized the school's practice of excessive whippings, pp 953-4. attributing the invention of flogg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Robert Southey
''Portrait of Robert Southey'' is an 1806 portrait painting by the British artist John Opie. It depicts the English writer Robert Southey at the age of thirty one. Southey, one of the Lake Poets of the Romanticism, Romantic movement, later became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. Southey commission (art), commissioned the work from the Cornwall, Cornish-born Opie one of the leading portraitists of the era. Today it is in the Keswick Museum in Cumbria. An engraving based on the portrait was produced by William Henry Egleton, a copy of which is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery in London.https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw40793/Robert-Southey References Bibliography * Earland, Ada. ''John Opie and His Circle''. Hutchinson & Company, 1911. * Speck, William Arthur. ''Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters''. Yale University Press, 2006. 1806 paintings Oil on canvas paintings Portraits of men 19th-century p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
