Male : Lake Poet, Translator and historian. Poet Laureate from 1813. Married Edith Fricker in 1795 (died 1837) & Caroline Bowles in 1839. Brother in law of Coleridge. Buried at Crosthwaite churchyard in Cumbria, his grave was restored by the Brazilian Government as a 'thank-you' for his History of Brazil

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bristol

Date of Birth : 1774 Date of Death : 1843 Age : 69

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Westminster School & Balliol College, Oxford

1795-1800
The Fall of Robespierre (1794) - Play with S T Coleridge
Poems (1795) - with Robert Lovell
Poems of Bion and Moschus (1794, 1795)
Joan of Arc : An Epic Poem (1796) (1798 Biggs for Longman, Bristol. 2nd Ed - 2 vols)
Minor Poems (1797)
(Trans) On the French Revolution by Mr Necker Vol 2 (1797)
Poems (1797-9 Biggs & Cottle, Bristol) - 2 vols
Letters Written during a short Residence in Spain & Portugal, with Some Account of Spanish &
Portuguese Poetry (1797)
(1799 Biggs & Cottle, Bristol. 2nd Ed)
(Ed) The Annual Anthology (1799-1800 Biggs & Cottle, Bristol) - 2 vols

1801-1805
Thalaba the Destroyer (1801 Longman) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Works of Chatterton (1803) - 3 vols
(Trans) Amadis of Gaul by Vasco Lobeira (1803) - 4 vols
Madoc (1805) (1807 Longman. 2nd Ed- 2 vols)
Metrical Tales & Other Poems (1805 Longman)

1806-1810
(Ed) Specimens of the Later English Poets (1807 Longman) - 3 vols. with G C Bedford
Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella (1807 London) - 3 vols
The Remains of Henry Kirke White (1807) - 2 vols
(Ed) Palmerin of England by Francisco de Moraes (1807)
(Trans) Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish (1808 Longman)
(Trans) The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili by Abbe Don J Ignatius Molina (1808)
(Trans) Memoria Sobre a Litteratura Portuueza (1809)
History of Brazil (1810-19 Longman) - 3 vols
The History of Europe (1810-13) - 4 vols
The Curse of Kehama (1810 Longman, Hurst)
Offered in 1999 for £220
(1811 2nd Ed - 2 vols)

1811-1815
Omniana, or Horae Otiosores (1812 Longman) - 2 vols. with S T Coleridge
The Origin, Nature and Object of the New System of Education (1812)
An Exposure of the Misrepresentations and Calumnies in Mr Marsh's Review of Sir George Barlow's Administration at Madras (1813)
The Life of Nelson (1813 Murray) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £260
Carmen Triumphale & Carmina Aulica (1814)
Odes to the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia (1814)
Roderick : The Last of the Goths (1814 Longman) (1815 Longman. 2nd Ed - 2 vols)
The Minor Poems (1815) - 3 vols

1816-1820
The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo (1816 Longman)
(1816 Longman. 2nd Ed)
A Summary of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington (1816 George Mullens, Dublin)
The Lay of the Laureate : Carmen Nuptiale (1816 Longman)
Wat Tyler : A Dramatic Poem (1817 Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London)
A Letter to William Smith, MP (1817 Murray)
Morte Darthur (1817)
The Life of Wesley, and the Rise & Progress of Methodism (1820 Longman) - 2 vols
(1836 Longman. New Ed with Notes by S T Coleridge) - 3 vols

1821-1825
A Vision of Judgement (1821 Longman)
The Expedition of Orsua and the Crimes of Aguirre (1821 Longman)
Life of John Duke of Marlborough (1822)
The History of the Peninsula War (1823-32) - 3 vols
The Book of the Church (1824 Murray) - 2 vols
A Tale of Paraguay (1825 Longman)
Madoc (1825 Longmans Hurst. 5th ed) - 2 vols

1826-1830
Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae : Letters to Charles Butler (1826 Murray)
All for Love and the Pilgrim of Compostella (1829 Murray)
Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works (1829 Galignani, Paris)
The Devil's Walk (1830) - with S T Coleridge. Edited by H W Montagu
Life of Bunyan (1830)

1831-1840
Essays on the Lives & Works of Our Uneducated Poets (1831)
Selections from the Poems (1831) - Edited by I Moxon
Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant (1831 Murray) - with John Jones
Essays, Moral and Political (1832 Murray) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 & 1999 for £300
Selections from the Prose Works (1832) - Edited by I Moxon
Life of Cowper (1833-7)
The Lives of the British Admirals (1833-40) - 5 vols
(Ed) Horae Lyricae by Isaac Watts (1834)
The Doctor : A Miscellany (1834-47 Longman, Rees) - 7 vols
[The story of the Three Bears appears first here]
(Ed) The Works of William Cowper : Poems, Correspondence and Translations (1835-7) - 15 vols
Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are added Attempts in Verse (1836 Bohn)
The Poetical Works (1837-8) - 10 vols
The History of Mary, the Maid of the Inn : A Melancholy & Affecting Narrative .. from
the Celebrated Poem
(c1840 Thomas Richardson, Derby) (c1840 W Davison, Alnwick)

1841-1850
The Life of the Rev Andrew Bell : Vol 1 (1844 Murray) - (3 vols)
Select Biographies : Cromwell and Bunyan (1844)
The History of Mary, the Maid of the Inn (c1845 Wm Walker, Otley)
Oliver Newman : A New England Tale with Other Poetical Remains (1845) - Edited by Rev H Hill
Robin Hood : A Fragment with Other Gragments and Poems (1847 Blackwood)
- with Caroline Southey
The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey (1849-50) - 6 vols
Common Place Book (1849-51 Longman) - 4 vols. Edited by J W Warter
Selection from the Letters (1849) - Edited by J W Warter
Illustrations to Southey's Roderick (1850 Joseph Cundall) - F B N (Miss Newdegate

1851-1900
The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey (1851 Harper)
Joan of Arc (1853 Viztelly)
The History of Mary, the Maid of the Inn (c1855 J Ross, Newcastle)
Selections from the Letters (1856 Longman, Brown) - 4 vols
The Doctor (1856 Longman) (1865 New Ed)
The Poetical Works (1860) - 10 vols
The Correspondence with Caroline Bowles (1881 Hodges, Figgis, Dublin) - Edited by Edward Dowden
The Life of Nelson (1881 Bickers, London)
Southey : The Story of His Life Written in His Letters (1887) - Edited by J Dennis
Poems (1895) - Edited by Edward Dowden

20thC
Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands in the Autumn of 1815 (1902)
(1902 Houghton Mifflin) - 500
(1903 Heinemann)
Letters : A Selection (1912) - Edited by M H Fitzgerald
Select Prose (1916) - Edited by Jacon Zeitlin
The Lives and Works of the Uneducated Poets (1925) - Edited by J S Childers
Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819 (1929 Murray) - Edited by C H Herford
The Chronicle of the Cid (1958 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Rene Ben Sussan
Journal of a Residence in Portugal 1800-1, and a Visit to France 1838 (1960) - Edited by Adolfo Cabral
New Letters (1965) - 2 vols. Edited by Kenneth Curry

READING
C C Southey : The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (1849-51) - 6 vols
William Haller : The Early Life of Robert Southey 1774-1803 (1917)
Jack Simmons : Robert Southey (1945)
Geoffrey Carnall : Southey and His Age (1960)
Geoffrey Cranall : Robert Southey (1964)
(Ed) Lionel Madden : Robert Southey - The Critical Heritage (1972)
Mark Storey : Roibert Southey - A Life (1997 OUP £25)