Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Robert South

 

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1800-1849Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production I.G. Robert SoutheyLife of WesleyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Ma...William Wordsworth Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyChronicle of the Cid, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ...Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Wate...William Wordsworth Robert Southey[Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The]Unknown
1700-1799' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me abou...James Losh Robert SoutheyMadocManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert SoutheyletterPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLetters from SpainPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou...Robert Blatchford Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk o...Edmund Gosse Robert SoutheyWorks (poetical?)Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret ...Charlotte Bronte Robert Southeyletter to Charlotte BronteManuscript: Letter
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Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between hersel...Charlotte Bronte Robert and Charlotte Southey and BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
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Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Co...Charlotte Bronte Robert SoutheyLife and CorrespondenceUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me muc...Charlotte Bronte Robert SoutheyLifePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, ha...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcUnknown
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ...Harriet Westbrook Robert Southey
1800-1849'[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18t...William Upcott Robert SoutheyThe Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...Thomas Carter Robert Southey[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never m...Lady Caroline Lamb Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'M Read Madoc all morning.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheySelections from the Letters of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert SoutheyRoderickPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey...Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheyLife and CorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on Br...Harriet Martineau Robert Southeyarticle on British [?Monarchism]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read...Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheyArticle on cemeteriesPrint: Serial / periodical
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...Thomas Carlyle Robert SoutheyArticle ixPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...Thomas Carlyle Robert SoutheyArticle ivPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, an epic poemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of MethodismPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyLives of the British AdmiralsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyOmniana, or horae otiosioresPrint: Book
1800-1849'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey'Julia Robert SoutheyThe Curse of Kehama OR 'Love'Print: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey compo...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'read in Southeys "Wesley"'John Clare Robert SoutheyThe life of WesleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find mys...Gerald Moore Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey[essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke's Travels]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &...Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey[article in Quarterly Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha...Sydney Smith Robert SoutheyThe Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'look over Roderick - very unwell'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyRoderick; the last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyDon RoderickPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyLetters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Southey [anon.]Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the SpanishPrint: Book
1800-1849'work and read Junius read Amadis'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. ...Claire Clairmont Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening fini...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening fini...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'every one here declares against [Southey...Arabella Graham-Clarke Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 April 1842: 'The best and fullest biography [of William Cowper] in all...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Southey (ed)The Works of William Cowper, Esq., ... With a Life of the AuthorPrint: Book
1800-1849Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding...Francis Horner Robert SoutheyRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Robert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...Sarah Harriet Burney Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...Sarah Harriet Burney Robert SoutheyLetters written during a short residence in Spain and PortugalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'Sarah Harriet Burney Robert South[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or ...Robert SoutheyRoderick: The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'.James Hogg Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a...Francis Jeffrey Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my kno...James Hogg Robert Southey[possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ...Jane Austen Robert SoutheyPoet's Pilgrimage to WaterlooPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...Samuel Johnson Robert South[Sermons]Print: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 8th. [1890] He made me read Southwell's "Burning Babe" to him out ...Hallam Tennyson Robert Southwell'The Burning Babe'Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8-9 February 1795: 'I have been reading the four first numbers of the Fl...Robert Southey Robert Southey (ed.)The FlagellantPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buo...Robert SoutheyMarch to MoscowUnknown
1800-1849'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'John Ruskin Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most...Anne Isabella Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him...Walter Scott Robert SoutheyManuscript: Letter
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From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but b...Catherine Austen Robert SoutheyThe Well of St KeyneUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 19 October 1826: 'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the P...Walter Scott Robert SoutheyHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817: 'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very maste...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southeyarticle on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a ...Charles Lamb Robert Southey[extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"]Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.

 

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