Robert Southey

Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774–1843) was an English poet, historian, and biographer, best known for his role as one of the "Lake Poets," alongside William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 until his death in 1843. Southey wrote extensively across various genres, including poetry, history, and biographies, with notable works such as "The Life of Nelson" and the epic poem "Joan of Arc." He is also credited with writing the original version of "The Story of the Three Bears," which later became the popular tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."

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BOOK I. I. King Don Ferrando succeeded to the states of Castille after the death of his father King Don Sancho el Mayor, in the era 1072, which was the year of the Incarnation 1034, and from the coming of the Patriarch Tubal to settle in Spain 3197, and from the general deluge 3339, and from the creation of the world 4995, according to the computation of the Hebrews, and from the beginning of the false... more...

THE FIRST BOOK.   Orleans was hush'd in sleep. Stretch'd on her couch  The delegated Maiden lay: with toil  Exhausted and sore anguish, soon she closed  Her heavy eye-lids; not reposing then,  For busy Phantasy, in other scenes  Awakened. Whether that superior powers,  By wise permission, prompt the midnight dream,  Instructing so the passive [1] faculty;  Or that the soul,... more...

HORATIO, son of Edmund and Catherine Nelson, was born September 29, 1758, in the parsonage-house of Burnham Thorpe, a village in the county of Norfolk, of which his father was rector. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Suckling, prebendary of Westminster, whose grandmother was sister of Sir Robert Walpole, and this child was named after his godfather, the first Lord Walpole. Mrs. Nelson died in 1767,... more...