Brutus, Marcus Junius
Brutus, Marcus Junius (85–42 bc) Roman republican leader, one of the principal assassins of Julius
Caesar. He sided first with
Pompey against Caesar, but Caesar forgave him and made him governor of Cisalpine Gaul in 46 bc, and city praetor in 44 bc. After taking part in Caesar's assassination, he raised an army in Greece but was defeated at Philippi by Mark
Antony and
Octavian. He committed suicide.
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Book Reviews:Robert Southey:Blurred lines of a forgottenpoet laureate
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 7/9/2006; ; 700+ words
; Robert Southey: Entire Man Of Letters, WA Speck...of this biography; for the life of Robert Southey is almost a parable of the vicissitudes...forgotten my age". Indeed, if the name Robert Southey means anything nowadays, it is as the...
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Obituary: Sir Robert Southey
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/19/1998; ; 700+ words
; ROBERT SOUTHEY was a gentleman in the rough...Council. By the Sixties Southey was deeply involved in politics...to match the days of Sir Robert Menzies. He was dismayed...old traditions. By 1975 Southey seemed assured of an easy...
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Zukovskij's early translations of the ballads of Robert Southey (1).(Vasilij Andreevic Zukovskij)
Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...translations of the ballads of Robert Southey, it is interesting to follow...Romantics. In 1813 he discovered Robert Southey, whose ballad "Rudiger" was...Canto II of Marmion), and to Robert Southey's in 1831 ("Donica," "Mary...
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Biography Robert Southey, poet laureate for 30 years, had not a jot of poetry in his soul, says Frances Wilson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/20/2006; ; 700+ words
; Robert Southey, Entire Man of Letters BY W. A. SPECK YALE, pounds 25, 305 pp T pounds 25 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Robert Southey was poet laureate from 1813 until 1843. He accepted the job on the...
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Books: The poet of the U-turn Rosemary Ashton on a life of the much-lampooned Robert Southey
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/13/1997; ; 700+ words
; Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey Oxford, pounds 25, 405 pp ROBERT SOUTHEY was one of the most interesting men of his age. Friend and brother...
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Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...better illustrate the truth of his insight than Robert Southey (1774-1843). Southey is the forgotten man of English Romanticism...use the original printings. Yet in his own day Southey was compared by some to Milton, and Cardinal...
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Robert Southey and the contexts of English romanticism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 461 words
; 0754630463 Robert Southey and the contexts of English romanticism. Ed. by Lynda Pratt. Ashgate...Nineteenth century series PR5468 One of the so-called "Lake Poets", Robert Southey (1774-1843) has often been neglected in comparison with his friends...
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The media of friends or foes? Unpublished letters from Joseph Cottle to Robert Southey, 1834-1837.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...of Coleridge's oldest acquaintances, Robert Southey. Between October 1834 and April 1837 Cottle sent Southey a series of detailed letters. His side...superficially equable alliance between Cottle and Southey. Coleridge died on 25 July 1834. Within...
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Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/22/2007; 537 words
; Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters. W.A. Speck. Yale University Press. [pounds...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...
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Robert G. Southey, former general counsel and secretary for Bankers Insurance Group.(On the Move)
Magazine article from: Florida Bar News; 9/15/2003; 314 words
; Robert G. Southey, former general counsel and secretary for Bankers Insurance Group, has joined Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O...
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Robert Southey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Southey A contemporary of the great poets Samuel...Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Robert Southey (1774-1843) is one of the best known...Elegies, &c. By Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, which...
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Southey, Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Southey, Robert (1774–1843), was expelled...1834 (7 vols, 1834–47). Southey's last years were marked by an increasing...in retracting his youthful Jacobinism, Southey was betraying principles.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was his budding friendship with Robert Southey. Both young men were eagerly interested...married Sara Fricker, the sister of Southey's wife-to-be. By that time, however, his friendship with Southey had already dissolved. Poetic...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...his developing friendship with Robert Southey (1774 – 1843). Both...married Sara Fricker, the sister of Southey's wife-to-be. By that time, however, his friendship with Southey had already ended. Poetic career...
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Walter Savage Landor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...democracy of Mr. William Pitt." In 1807 he met the poet Robert Southey, with whom he remained friends all his life. In 1808...distraught, Landor would have starved but for the kindness of Robert Browning, who said he owed more to Landor than to anyone...
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