Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters.(Brief article)(Book review) Contemporary Review | March 22, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters. W.A. Speck. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xx + 305 pages. ISBN 0-300-11681-0. Like many poets and writers, Southey sought to fashion a view of his life that he could present to others and that he might learn to believe himself. He appeared to be a 'simple scholarly man, contented with his lot' and his lot was not that bad: poems, a variety of successful histories and biographies, a pension, the poet laureateship and a lucrative connexion with the Quarterly. His range of writing--poet, historian, essayist, and Tory ...

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