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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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".
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