1st Edition
Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810 Vol 5
574 Pages
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Routledge
2624 Pages
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Routledge
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This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances.
Introduction -- Selected Shorter Poems794–1810 -- 1 To the Nettle (1794) -- 2 Botany-Bay Eclogue. Elinor (1794) -- 3 The Retrospect (1795) -- 4 Sonnet from Poems (1795) -- 4.1 The Faded Flower -- 5 To the Exiled Patriots (1795) -- 6 Elegy. Written in May, 1794 (1796) -- 7 Mortality (1796) -- 8 Othryades, a Mono-Drama (1796) -- 9 Sonnet (‘Pleasant it is awhile to linger here’) (1796) -- 10 Sonnet (‘As one, whom the dark phantoms of the night’) (1796) -- 11 The Death of Joshua (1796) -- 12 To a Frog (1796) -- 13 Sonnet (‘Evening, as musing on my lonely way’) (1796) -- 14 Sonnet (‘With wayworn feet a pilgrim woe-begone’) (1796) -- 15 To Mary Wollstonecraft (1797) -- 16 The Triumph of Woman (1797) -- 17 Poems on the Slave Trade (1797) -- 17.1 Sonnet (‘Hold your mad hands! for ever on the plain’) -- 17.2 Sonnet (‘Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair’) -- 17.3 Sonnet (‘Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run’) -- 17.4 Sonnet (‘’Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep’) -- 17.5 Sonnet (‘Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword’) -- 17.6 Sonnet (‘High in the air expos’d the Slave is hung’) -- 18 To the Genius of Africa (1797) -- 19 To my own miniature picture, taken at two years of age (1797) -- 20 The Pauper’s Funeral (1797) -- 21 Ode written on the First of January, 1794 (1797) -- 22 Inscriptions (1797) -- 22.1 For a Tablet at Godstow Nunnery -- 22.2 For a Column at Newbury -- 22.3 For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon -- 22.4 For the Apartment in Chepstow-Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years -- 22.5 For a Monument at Silbury-Hill -- 22.6 For a Monument in the New Forest -- 22.7 For a Tablet on the Banks of a Stream -- 22.8 For the Cenotaph at Ermenonville -- 23 Birth-Day Odes (1797) -- 23.1 1793 -- 23.2 1796 -- 24 Botany-Bay Eclogues (1797) -- 24.1 Elinor -- 24.2 Humphrey and William -- 24.3 John, Samuel, and Richard -- 24.4 Frederic -- 25 Sonnets from Poems 1797 (1797) -- 25.1 ‘Go Valentine and tell that lovely mai
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