Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy.(Critical Essay)(Biography)

New Criterion | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

"A great many second-rate poets, in fact, are second-rate just for this reason, that they have not the sensitiveness and consciousness to perceive that they feel differently from the preceding generation, and therefore must use words differently." So wrote T. S. Eliot, with the eighteenth century in mind: and few poets better illustrate the truth of his insight than Robert Southey (1774-1843). Southey is the forgotten man of English Romanticism, whose poems were little studied until recently even by specialists, and, while available in facsimile, had never been edited on ...

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