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Robert Southey - Wikipedia  Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has long been eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth ... 1813 that he was appointed Poet Laureate after Walter Scott refused the post...
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Robert Southey | English author | Britannica.com  The son of a linen draper, Southey spent much of his childhood at Bath in the care of his aunt, Elizabeth .... Her appointment of William Wordsworth in 1843.
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Robert Southey | Poetry Foundation  17741843 ... Robert Southey was born in Bristol on 12 August 1774 as the oldest ... an invitation to Portugal from his uncle Hilland a stipend from his school friend ... This poem, Southey's greatest epic success at the time, is even more ... and the rather unsympathetic critique of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads...
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Robert Southey (1774-1843) - English History  His father, Robert Southey, a linendraper, was the son of a farmer at Lydiard St. ... brought a friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was on a visit, to Southey's rooms at Balliol. ... Neither the appointment nor the Irish metropolis proved congenial. ... Life at Keswick brought Southey into more intimate relations with Wordsworth,...
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Robert Southey facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Make research projects and school reports about Robert Southey easy with ... Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Robert Southey (1774-1843) is one of ... a viable public career as a poet which led to his appointment as Poet Laureate in 1813. ... A year later, his friend Robert Allen introduced Southey to Coleridge.
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Collection 10 LOVE AND LOSS [Image: (Opposite) The Daydream ...  Tennyson's father was a clergyman of good family but little money, who ... That year, he was named poet laureate (after Wordsworth's death), and he finally married. ..... Victoria took comfort from In Memoriam; even the descriptions of Hallam's ... a reputation for rakish carousing, and in her widowhood, Victoria continued the...
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1 Glossary of Terms in Arcadia Hardly entire, this list of references ...  An unfounded or false, and often deliberately misleading story. ... by Nicholas Poussin called "Shepherds in Arcadia" showing a group standing around a shepherd's tomb on .... With Robert Southey, he designed a utopian community for the ... Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats were all British romantic poets.
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William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation  For Wordsworth poetic composition was a primary mode of expression; ... to have written prose mostly in order to find a structure for his poetic beliefs and ... the District of the Lakes, which retains more than a local interest as geographical ... Poems, in two Volumes (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807).
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William Wordsworth 1770 - University of Idaho  Preface to Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth 17701850 ... Thus "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. ... In short, Wordsworth tells us that poetry: "Its object is truth. ... Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the...
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Free Flashcards about POETS & POETRY - StudyStack  IN 1850 THE ATHENAEUM SUGGESTED THAT SHE SUCCEED WORDSWORTH AS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
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Poets Laureate of Great Britain  Poets Laureate of Great Britain: who they were and what they did; their history, ... The Act of Union created "Great Britain" as the political name of England, Scotland, and Wales. ... Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) ... William Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... Nicholas Rowe was celebrated as a dramatist rather than as a poet.
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James Dickey (1923-1997) | New Georgia Encyclopedia  In 1968 he was named poet-in-residence and professor of English at the University of South ... His novel Deliverance, published in 1970, brought him popular success and a degree of notoriety, ... More in Fiction Authors ... Ron Baughman, Understanding James Dickey (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985).
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry Foundation  The volume of Poems on Various Subjects (including four sonnets by Lamb and ... At his cottage he wrote The Eolian Harp, a meditative poem different in .... The collaboration on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is interesting on several counts. .... Dorothy Wordsworth's journal of 1798 shows how collaborative were all of...
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list of poets laureate of Britain | poet laureate | Britannica.com  The title of poet laureate was first granted in England in the 17th century for poetic ... After 1668 the laureateship was recognized as an established royal office to be ... (181343); William Wordsworth (184350); Alfred, Lord Tennyson (185092) ... Uh Oh. There was a problem with your submission. Please try again later.
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The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind an Autobiographical Poem ...  The following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and ... "That work, addressed to a dear friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and ... This "advertisement" to the first edition of The Prelude, published in 1850the year of Wordsworth's deathwas written by Mr. Carter, who edited the volume.
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This is My Lake Country: Wordsworth, Thoreau, and the Making of ...  corresponding with high-level officials and by publishing widely-circulated poetry and ... Windermere Railway, he nonetheless provided a rounded environmental ... Home to the Lake Poets  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor ...... factory reform movement, wasn't passed until 1847; by promoting it, ...... The River Duddon.
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Poetry Flashcards | Quizlet  He wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" in the early 1800s at Grasmere. William Wordsworth.
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William Wordsworth, Last Poems, 18211850 ... - Romantic Circles  May 15, 2003 ... The expanded series will soon comprise all of the poet's poems, from ... and 1837, and--not for all tastes, certainly--the Ecclesiastical Sonnets. ... that he would still be ranked with Byron, Hemans, Clare, and other poets of the day. ... The last "last" poem, likely not entirely penned by the Poet Laureate, is an...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his .... Coleridge joined Southey in a plan, soon abandoned, to found a utopian ... of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which proved to be the starting point for the English .... The Friend was an eclectic publication that drew upon every corner of...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poetry Foundation  In his own day he was said to bewith Queen Victoria and Gladstoneone of ... forth by an unaltered rural England; the conflict between what he thought of as his ... "Old Fitz" nagged at Tennyson, who in the spring of 1842 agreed to break his .... his three other major long works, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King...
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Locating Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey" and the Community with ...  For most of the last two decades discussion of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" has ... and whether such scenes lie behind the poem that he wrote on July 13th, the ... of the scene on the Wyethe beggars lurking in the Abbey ruins, the furnaces of ..... On the right side of the river, the bank forms a woody amphitheatre, following...