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Robert Southey - Entire Man of Letters (Paperback)
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Robert Southey - Entire Man of Letters (Paperback)
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In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his
fellow 'Lake poets', Coleridge and Wordsworth. But since his death
his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new
biography W. A. Speck argues that if Southey's poetry is no longer
considered as significant, his other writings were more salient and
his political views far more influential than those of his fellow
poets. He was, as Byron conceded, England's 'only existing entire
man of letters'. The book engages with Southey's voluminous
publications, weaving discussion of them into the narrative of his
life. It shows how he moved from self-confessed republican and
admirer of the French Revolution in the 1790s, to 'the most
powerful literary supporter of the tories' by the 1820s. It shows
how, unhappy in his personal life, Southey sought intellectual and
emotional fulfillment outside his tepid marriage, first from Mary
Barker, and then from Caroline Bowles who became his second wife.
Speck has explored Southey's full correspondence, not simply that
which appeared in the editions edited by his descendants, and the
letters reveal a man of considerably greater emotional complexity
than previously assumed.This is the first fully rounded life for
sixty years, setting Southey in historical context and restoring
him to the map of English literature. 'an excellent piece of
scholarship ...lively, entertaining and meticulously researched.
Clearly the best biography of Southey ever written.' Lynda Pratt,
University of Nottingham. W. A. Speck has been professor of history
at the universities of Hull and Leeds. He is an established author
in eighteenth-century English literature.
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