Robert Southey
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Robert Southey 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 ra
Portrait of Robert Southey by John Opie, 1806
Wine Street, Bristol (1872)
Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London
Peter Vandyke, Portrait of Robert Southey, Aged 21, 1795
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Robert Southey
…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…
Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
Wordsworth's birthplace in Cockermouth, Cumbria
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820