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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'.James Hogg Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and challenges you fairly to a trial but after a seriou...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age - its great merit consists in the extent and boldne...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affect...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of...Francis Jeffrey Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best'James Hogg Robert Southey[possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers to a rhapsodic description of alpine scenery encoun...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better ...Jane Austen Robert SoutheyPoet's Pilgrimage to WaterlooPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buonaparte he would set out/ For a summer excursion to ...Robert SoutheyMarch to MoscowUnknown
1800-1849'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'John Ruskin Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and...Print: Book
1800-1849A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him and quoting the twaddle of some old woman, male or ...Walter Scott Robert Southey Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but by Southey] beginning 'A well there is in the West Countr...Catherine Austen Robert SoutheyThe Well of St KeyneUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 19 October 1826: 'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the Peninsular War. It is very good indeed, honest Englis...Walter Scott Robert SoutheyHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817: 'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very masterly article.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southeyarticle on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is a very clear, agreeably-written narrative and though often partial & one-sided, in a good spirit on the whole & with enlightened views'.G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Robert SoutheyThe Book of the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849'It luckily happened that “Kehama” was on board, and that many of the party, at my recommendation, had become familiar with it during the voyage. By the way, what a vast ...Unknown passengers aboard East Indiaman Thomas Grenville, Ramsgate-Calcutta, total duration of voyage June-October 1823Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and an [sic] painfully impressed — I might say depressed.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley, and the Rise and Progress of M...Print: Book
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the...Charles Lamb Robert Southey[extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Month...Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, — a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have...Charles Lamb Robert SoutheyThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical, Extract from poetry book in periodical


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