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Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1793-1810 (The Pickering Masters)
Robert Southey Poetical Works 17931810 - The Pickering Masters Author:Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Robert Southey This major five volume critical edition recovers the early poetry of Robert Southey (1774-1843), a writer who was central to the cultural and political controversies of his own time, but who has been neglected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century critics of British Romanticism. This is the first modern scholarly edition of Southey's poetry and i... more »t coincides with a period of major reassessment of his manifold, complex contributions to Romantic period culture. The edition will be the standard resource for the growing numbers of readers of Southey, a starting-point for critics to take in their own work on the forgotten Lake Poet and his troubled and troubling relationship to British Romantic writing in new directions. The mid-nineteenth century texts still to be found on library shelves are wholly inadequate for the growing number of scholars wishing to conduct research on Southey.« less