Robert Southey Quotes


Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.


Citations

Southey, Robert. Roderick, the Last of the Goths. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, p. 288.

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Robert Southey
Robert Southey
  • Born: August 12, 1774
  • Died: March 21, 1843
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Historian, Biographer, Essayist

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 had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably Byron, accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as author of the poem After Blenheim and the original version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.