Robert Southey
1774
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1843
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Balliol College, Westminster School
occupation: writer, poet, historian, biographer, politician, translator
Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is remembered especially for the poem "After Blenheim" and the original version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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