Robert Southey
1774 – 1843 · aged 69
English romantic poet (1774–1843)
- Born
- 12 Aug 1774 · Bristol
- Died
- 21 Mar 1843 · Keswick
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- 12 Aug 1774BornBorn in Bristol
- 1813 – 1843RolePoet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- 1826RoleMember of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 21 Mar 1843DiedDied in Keswick
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
Robert Southey (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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