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Robert Southey (1774-1843)
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During his lifetime, Robert Southey was known as one of the “Lake Poets,” which included William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While a student at Oxford, he planned (but never realized) with Coleridge a utopian community, which Coleridge called “Pantisocracy,” to be established in Pennsylvania, and wrote Joan of Arc, an epic poem celebrating democracy and liberty. His sequence, Poems on the Slave Trade, expresses Southey’s passionate objection to England’s involvement in the capture and selling into servitude of native Africans. In 1813, he was appointed poet laureate.
Title: Robert Southey (1774-1843)
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Abstract
During his lifetime, Robert Southey was known as one of the “Lake Poets,” which included William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
While a student at Oxford, he planned (but never realized) with Coleridge a utopian community, which Coleridge called “Pantisocracy,” to be established in Pennsylvania, and wrote Joan of Arc, an epic poem celebrating democracy and liberty.
His sequence, Poems on the Slave Trade, expresses Southey’s passionate objection to England’s involvement in the capture and selling into servitude of native Africans.
In 1813, he was appointed poet laureate.
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