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A Short Biography of Robert Southey

Author Name:

Robert Southey

Born As:

Robert Southey

Other Names:

Born:

12 Aug 1774

Died:

21 Mar 1843




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Writer and Poet                          
Selected Works:

Fall of Robespierre - 1794
Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem - 1796
Poems - 1797-99
Letters from Spain - 1797
Saint Patrick's Purgatory - 1798
After Blenheim - 1798
Devil's Thoughts - 1799

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them - 1799 - Began "You are old, father William"

Thalaba the Destroyer - 1801
The Inchcape Rock - 1802
Amadis de Gaula - 1803 - Translation
Madoc - 1805 
Metrical Tales and Other Poems - 1805
Letters from England - 1807 - Paperback
Palmerin of England - 1807 - Translation
The Cid - 1808 . Translation
The Curse of Kehama - 1810
History of Brazil Volume I - 1810
The Life of Nelson - 1813
Roderick, the Last of the Goths - 1814
The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo - 1816
The Lay of the Laureate: Carmen Nuptiale - 1816
Wat Tyler: A Dramatic Poem - 1817
A Letter to William Smith Esq MP - 1817

Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819 - 1929, posthumous
The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of Methodism - 1820
A Vision of Judgment - 1821
Life of Cromwell - 1821
History of the Peninsular War - 1821
The Book of the Church - 1824
A Tale of Paraguay - 1825
Thomas More - 1829
The Pilgrim's Progress with a Life of John Bunyan - 1830
Essays, Moral and Political - 1832
Cowper - 1833
Lives of the British Admirals - 1833
The Doctors - 1834 - Includes the first published version of the fairy tale-like The Three Bears
Select Lives of Cromwell and Bunyan - 1846.                          
Mother  Margaret Hill
Father Thomas Southey