ROBERT SOUTHEY ENTIRE MAN OF LETTERS
Written by W.A. Speck
Published by Yale University Press
in 2006
ISBN: 0300116810
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ROBERT SOUTHEY ENTIRE MAN OF LETTERS
Written by W.A. Speck.
Stock no. 1330913
1st.
2006.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards, gilt title to spine. Purple endpapers. B/w photos. 305 pages. ISBN: 0300116810. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper else a super copy. Small mark to rear panel of wrapper.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Family Tree
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: 'A morning of ardour and of hope'
- 1. Schoolboy (1774-1792)
- 2. Student (1792-1794)
- 3. Pantisocrat (1794-1795)
- 4. 'Jacobin' (1795-1800)
- 5. 'Shuttlecock of Fortune' (1800-1803)
- Part II: 'A day of clouds and storms'
- 6. Laker (1803-1807)
- 7. Lake Poet (1807-1809)
- 8. 'Historiographer to Mr Ballantyne' (1809-1813)
- 9. Poet Laureate (1813-1816)
- 10. 'Apostate' (1817-1822)
- 11. 'The most powerful literary supporter of the Tories' (1822-1829)
- 12. 'The Doctor' (1829-1834)
- Part III: 'An evening of gloom closed in by premature darkness'
- 13. Widower (1834-1837)
- 14. Old Man (1837-1839)
- 15. Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index