Robert Southey

(1774-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 NRA: Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Poet Journalist Biographer DNB: Southey, Robert (1774-1843), poet and reviewer LBT ID: RoSouth1843 VIAF ID: 61576896 LOC ID: n80004250	B/BAP: 1774-08-12 DIED: 1843-03-21
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Poet laureate and man of letters whose contemporary reputation depended upon his prose works, among them the Life of Nelson, 2 vols (1813), History of the Peninsular War, 3 vols (1823-32) and The Doctor, 7 vols (1834-47).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) “Mr. Southey and Lord Byron” in The Courier (13 December 1824) The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)