Literary Birthday – 12 August – Robert Southey
Robert Southey was born on 12 August 1774 and died on 21 March 1843.
Robert Southey Quotes
- By writing much, one learns to write well.
- It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken–the manner, the place, and the time.
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet and writer of prose. He is one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Southey was England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until he died in 1843. Other romantics like Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is remembered for the poem ‘After Blenheim’ and the original version of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Southey was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. He was also a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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by Amanda Patterson
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