{"id":2955,"date":"2022-01-26T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:32:31","slug":"robert-southey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/poets\/robert-southey\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Southey: A Rebellious and Influential Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Robert Southey was born in 1774, the son of a wealthy wine merchant. He was expelled from Westminster School for editing a magazine entitled the Flagellant and then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. There he became friendly with S.T. Coleridge<\/a>; together they established their Pantisocratic Society, which preached Utopian ideals of social reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southey’s first volume of poetry, The Fall of Robespierre, was published in 1794 and was followed by a series of other volumes, including Thalaba the Destroyer (1797) and Madoc (1805). He also wrote prose works, including historical biographies and a novel, Wat Tyler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1813, Southey was appointed Poet Laureate<\/a>. He was a prolific writer and produced some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Battle of Blenheim (1798), After Blenheim (1805) and Curse of Kehama (1809). He also wrote a number of poems for children, including The Cataract of Lodore (1835) and The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them (1837).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southey was a rebel poet who challenged the conventions of his day. He was an influential figure in the Romantic movement<\/a> and helped to establish poetry as a popular form of literature. He was also a staunch defender of the rights of the working class and wrote extensively on social reform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southey’s work is both thought-provoking and entertaining, and he remains one of the most underrated poets in English literature. He died of ‘softening of the brain’ in 1843.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Southey was born in 1774, the son of a wealthy wine merchant. He was expelled from Westminster School for editing a magazine entitled the Flagellant and then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. There he became friendly with S.T. Coleridge; together they established their Pantisocratic Society, which preached Utopian ideals of social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}