Revolution and Romanticism

A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth

ISBN 1 85477 203 1

174 x 110 mm 250 pages

ROBERT SOUTHEY

Poems 1799

Southey is always readable. His ballads, mocked as they were in the Anti-jacobin, possess freedom, vigour and humour. They are closely bound up with Lyrical Ballads, from which he borrowed before and after publication, but which he attacked in a highly influential review on its publication. This successor volume to Poems 1797 also includes the lengthy ‘Vision of the Maid of Orleans’, and a group of eclogues, among them the mournful ‘Ruined Cottage’, plagiarized from Wordsworth.

£35 $65

And in He came with eyes of flame
The Fiend to fetch the dead,
And all the church with his presence glowed
Like a fiery furnace red. ...

And he bade the Old Woman of Berkeley rise
And come with her master away,
And the cold sweat stood on the cold cold corpse,
At the voice she was forced to obey.

(From ‘The Old Woman of Berkeley’)



Home | Index of Titles

Revolution and Romanticism | Hibernia |
Poetry of the 1890s