Word: southey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...
Professor Greenough has presented two volumes to the Library: a rare French work and a second edition of the poems of Robert Southey, dated...
...capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...
...rats you are." That night as Hatto sat down to a glutton's feast at his table, fierce rats assailed him in droves. He fled on horseback, rowed to a tower in the middle of the Rhine, locked himself in. There the rats followed and devoured him. Poet Southey celebrated this event in "God's judgment upon a Wicked Bishop...
This work was evidently read with great care by Southey and Coleridge, since they both made numerous marginal comments in criticism and elucidation of the author's statements. Those by Coleridge are especially long and throw a good deal of light on his own literary and critical development...