Word: southey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Mention of Robert Southey's The Battle of Blenheim in your geograpnic Background of War brings to mind 141-year-old lines that are becoming all too current. Peterkin's grandpa should have been nonplussed when he recalled...
...German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent a new war from being carried into the South German Basin or to the western end of the Baltic Plain the Nazis have built the Siegfried-or Limes-line. At its vital segment (between the Lorraine Gateway and Luxemburg) where the French might penetrate into...
...than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while eating lunch, but I could not let anybody exalt southey's poetry over Byron's and I contradicted every assertion that Wendell made...
...Robert Southey...
...Robert Southey's Prose," Professor Rollins, Emerson...