Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old

Pratt, Lynda

Abstract

Throughout a four-decade career, the controversial poet, historian, biographer and essayist Robert Southey explored the trajectories both of his own individual life and of the time and the society in which he lived. Using a range of published and unpublished sources, including Southey’s vast correspondence, this essay will track this preoccupation for the first time and consider its implications for understanding both of Southey and of Romanticism.

Citation

Pratt, L. (2019). Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old. Romanticism, 24(1), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0432

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 15, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Sep 30, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 30, 2019
• Journal: Romanticism
• Print ISSN: 1354-991X
• Electronic ISSN: 1354-991X
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 271-280
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0432
• Keywords: Literature and Literary Theory
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/904875
• Publisher URL: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/rom.2019.0432
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• Additional Information: This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript] of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Romanticism. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/rom.2019.0432