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Robert Southey
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Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet from 1774 to 1843 who was one of the major literary figures of his era. His works helped define Romantic poetry, a movement that emphasized imagination, emotion, and nature during a transformative period in English literature.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Bristol
- Place of death
- Keswick
- Spouse
- Caroline Anne Southey
- Occupation
- biographer
- Educated at
- Westminster School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Robert Southey.jpg
- Work location
- London
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- Commons category
- Robert Southey
- date of birth
- 1774-08-12
- topic's main category
- Category:Robert Southey
- date of death
- 1843-03-21
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Southey
- Commons gallery
- Robert Southey
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- ethnic group
- English people
- place of burial
- Cumbria
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Robert Southey
- candidacy in election
- 1826 United Kingdom general election
- P8168
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Works in European collections
32 objects attributed to Robert Southey, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Histoire de la guerre de la peninsule sous Napoleon
The life & correspondence of the late Robert Southey
The life & correspondence of the late Robert Southey
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði, ˈsʌði/; 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
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