The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Seven: 1824-1826

Southey, Robert

Abstract

Part Seven focuses on the years when the ‘Lake Poet’, biographer, historian and social commentator Robert Southey was one of the most high-profile, and controversial, authors working in Britain. Drawing on manuscripts from over 100 international archives, it makes available for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from 1822 to 1824. The letters we publish here reveal the formidable range of Southey’s engagement in key issues of the day, locally, nationally and internationally. They also bear witness to the end of his active career as Poet Laureate, though he continued to hold the post until his death in 1843. Above all, Southey’s correspondence provides compelling new evidence of his role in making and shaping Romantic period culture, not least through his complex, sometimes antagonistic, relationships with his contemporaries, including Byron and Shelley.

Citation

Southey, R. (2024). L. Pratt, & I. Packer (Eds.), The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Seven: 1824-1826. Romantic Circles

• Book Type: Scholarly Edition
• Online Publication Date: Nov 14, 2024
• Publication Date: Nov 14, 2024
• Deposit Date: Nov 21, 2024
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: Online
• Series Title: The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
• Series Number: 7
• Edition: 1st
• Keywords: Southey; Romanticism; Correspondence
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/31896075
• Publisher URL: https://www.romantic-circles.org/editions/southey_letters/part7