Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

ISBN-13: 9781032450872 / Angielski

Tim Fulford

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The Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, contributes to the current interest in self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and culture. Accompanied by a new introduction written by Tim Fulford, this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary History.

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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Editorial Introduction

1 Southey’s review of James Grant Raymond, The Life of Thomas Dermody, Interspersed with Pieces of Original Poetry, The Annual Review, 5 (1806), 382–397

2 Southey’s Account of the Life of Henry Kirke White, from The Remains Of Henry Kirke White, 2 vols (London, 1807)

3 Southey’s Review of Samuel F. B. Morse, Amir Khan, and other Poems: the Remains of Lucretia Maria Davidson, The Quarterly Review, 41 (1829), 289–301

4 Southey’s Introduction to Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: with Some Account of the Writer, Written by Himself: and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of Our Uneducated Poets (London, 1831)

Stephen Duck
James Woodhouse
John Bennet
Ann Yearsley
John Frederick Bryant
An Account of John Jones’s Life Written by Himself

5 Southey’s Review of Eliza Bray, Fables, and other Pieces in Verse, by Mary Maria Colling, The Quarterly Review, 47 (1832), 81–103

Appendix I: Correspondence Concerning the Lives
Appendix II: Reviews of and Comments on the Lives
Appendix III: The Poems of John Jones
Endnotes
Index

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Tim Fulford is an experienced editor of Southey’s poetry and prose, and also of the poetry and correspondence of the labouring-class writers Robert Bloomfield and Henry Kirke White.