The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part 6: 1819-1821
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six: 1819 to 1821, Edited by Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt:
https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/Part_Six/index.html
Based on extensive new archival research, Part Six brings together for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from a period of turbulence and transition in his own life and in wider society. The 546 letters published here are testimony to Southey’s formidable energy and commitment to letter writing as a vehicle for social networking and for the exchange of information and opinion. They show his active engagement in cultural and political debate locally, nationally and internationally. They reflect on a vast range of subjects, including domestic and familial relationships, medicine and science, economics, the law, the history, flora and fauna of the Lake District and of Brazil, attempts to improve the lot of distressed gentlewomen, the need to treat men who acted “unlawfully (especially in mobs)” as wild “beasts,” European lotteries, and new inventions such as the “German Horse” (a predecessor of the bicycle).
By 1819 Southey was a key player in a vast network. His correspondence provides new information about his increasingly rancorous relationships with Byron and Shelley, and his dealings with eminent contemporaries including Coleridge, Longman, Murray, Scott, and Wordsworth. It sheds light on the early careers of a new generation of authors in Britain and abroad, who sought his advice and assistance, including Caroline Bowles, Sara Coleridge, Ebenezer Elliott and George Ticknor. It shows how controversial works such as The Life of Wesley (1820) and A Vision of Judgement (1821) came into being and provides new ways of connecting the radical poet of the 1790s with the interventionist Poet Laureate of the late 1810s and early 1820s.
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