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Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
"A great many second-rate poets, in fact, are second-rate just for this reason, that they have not the sensitiveness and consciousness to perceive that they feel differently from the preceding generation, and therefore must use words differently." So wrote T. S. Eliot, with the eighteenth century in mind: and few poets better illustrate the truth of his insight than Robert Southey (1774-1843). Southey is the forgotten man of English Romanticism, whose poems were little studied until recently even by specialists, and, while available in facsimile, had never been edited on modern principles. Mark Storey's sympathetic biography, which appeared in 1997, still had to use the ...
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- Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica Ober, Kenneth H. Ober, Warren U. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...it did Zukovskij. For several years Puskin, like Zukovskij, was interested in the works of the English Poet Laureate Robert Southey (1774-1843), and eventually made several partial translations from the works of that poet. These translations have...
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- Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica Ober, Kenneth H. Ober, Warren U. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...earliest translations of the ballads of Robert Southey, it is interesting to follow Zukovskij...English Romantics. In 1813 he discovered Robert Southey, whose ballad "Rudiger" was the...1832 (Canto II of Marmion), and to Robert Southey's in 1831 ("Donica," "Mary...
- Robert Southey and the contexts of English romanticism.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
0754630463 Robert Southey and the contexts of English romanticism. Ed. by Lynda Pratt...century series PR5468 One of the so-called "Lake Poets", Robert Southey (1774-1843) has often been neglected in comparison with his...
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- Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica Ober, Kenneth H. Ober, Warren U. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...as poems in their own right, chose to translate three of Robert Southey's ballads relatively early in his career, and he returned...of the imagination of a master poet-translator. One of Robert Southey's deservedly popular works is his ballad "God's Judgment...
- Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review March 22, 2007 700+ words
Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters. W.A. Speck. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xx + 305 pages. ISBN 0-300...
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Pratt, Linda Cottle, Joseph July 1, 2003 700+ words
...From the very earliest days of the project, he had sought the advice of another of Coleridge's oldest acquaintances, Robert Southey. Between October 1834 and April 1837 Cottle sent Southey a series of detailed letters. His side of the correspondence...
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Heath, Henry,fl. 1824-1850--Engraver January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Robert Southey, from a drawing by Hancock (1796) in the possession of Mr....
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Woodman, Richard,1784-1859--Engraver January 1, 1934 700+ words
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