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ROBERT SOUTHEY ENTIRE MAN OF LETTERS

by W.A. Speck

Published by Yale University Press. 1st. 2006

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.

Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper else a super copy. Small mark to rear panel of wrapper.

ISBN: 0300116810
Stock no. 1330913

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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

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