√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production
| I.G. | Robert Southey | Life of Wesley | Print: 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 Southey | Joan of Arc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Chronicle of the Cid, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William 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 Southey | Madoc | Manuscript: 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 Southey | History of Brazil | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 Southey | letter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Letters from Spain | Print: 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 Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: 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 Southey | Works (poetical?) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret ... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | letter to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between hersel... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert and Charlotte Southey and Bronte | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Co... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me muc... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | Life | Print: 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 Southey | | Print: 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 Southey | Joan of Arc | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.? | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Robert Southey | Thalaba | Print: 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 Southey | The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his Life | Print: 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 Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Madoc: a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'M Read Madoc all morning.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Madoc: a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: 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 Southey | Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey | Print: 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 Southey | Madoc | Print: 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 Southey | Roderick | Print: 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 Southey | Curse of Kehama, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on Br... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | article on British [?Monarchism] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Article on cemeteries | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Southey | Article ix | Print: 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 Southey | Article iv | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | The Doctor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc, an epic poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Lives of the British Admirals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Omniana, or horae otiosiores | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey' | Julia | Robert Southey | The 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 Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: 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 Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: 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 Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in Southeys "Wesley"' | John Clare | Robert Southey | The life of Wesley | Print: 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 Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: 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 Southey | The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley | Print: 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 Southey | The Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'look over Roderick - very unwell' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Roderick; the last of the Goths | Print: 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 Southey | Don Roderick | Print: 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 Southey | Letters 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 Spanish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work and read Junius read Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba till Bed time.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: 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 Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: 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 Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'every one here declares against [Southey... | Arabella Graham-Clarke | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 Author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815:
'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding... | Francis Horner | Robert Southey | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: 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 Southey | Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey | Print: 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 Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: 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 Southey | Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal | Print: 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 Southey | Roderick: The Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'. | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Curse of Kehama, The | Print: 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 Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: 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 Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: 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 Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: 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 Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: 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 Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: 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 Southey | Doctor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ... | Jane Austen | Robert Southey | Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 | From 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 |
| 1700-1799 | Robert 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 Flagellant | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buo... | | Robert Southey | March to Moscow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.' | John Ruskin | Robert Southey | Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society | Print: 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 Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him... | Walter Scott | Robert Southey | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but b... | Catherine Austen | Robert Southey | The Well of St Keyne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 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 Southey | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | S. 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 Southey | article on Parliamentary Reform | Print: 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. |