Robert Southey è stato uno scrittore britannico.
Studiò al Balliol College di Oxford e aderì, dopo aver stretto una forte amicizia con Coleridge, agli ideali della rivoluzione francese. Dopo il matrimonio con la cognata di Coleridge, ebbe modo di recarsi più volte in Portogallo, fatto di non secondaria importanza per il maturarsi di un gusto epico, assunto dalla letteratura portoghese, nelle sue opere.
Nella sua poesia e nei suoi romanzi si trovano intenzioni programmatiche, nobiltà di soggetti, ma raramente un'impronta geniale.
Tra le sue opere in prosa The Life of Nelson del 1813, senza alcun dubbio tra i suoi romanzi quello di maggior successo. Wikipedia
“Un gattino è nel mondo animale ciò che un bocciolo di rosa è in un giardino.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il gatto con gli stivali e tante altre storie di gatti, traduzioni di Rita Gatti e altri, Newton Compton editori, Roma, 2011, p. 38 https://books.google.it/books?id=dzqjAlOAWicC&pg=PT38. ISBN 978-88-541-3723-3
Robert Southey libro Goldilocks and the Three Bears
"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor http://www.edsanders.com/stories/3bears/3bears.htm (1837).
St. 33. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
St. 4. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
St. 8. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
St. 11. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
“What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?”
Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).
“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”
Ode written during the War with America (1814).
St. 2. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”
The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.
“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).
For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.
“He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.”
St. 2. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
“Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!””
Robert Southey The Inchcape Rock
The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.
“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.”
Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837, reported in Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 139, and in Mumby Letters of Literary Men, Vol. II (1906), p. 185.
“The arts babblative and scribblative.”
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 2 (1829).
“Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
That will not perish in the dust.”
My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 4.
Thalaba the Destroyer http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/thalaba_frag.html, Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).
“And then they knew the perilous Rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
The Inchcape Rock http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6688&poem=28859, st. 4 (1802).
“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.”
Motto.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Southey/the_old_man's_comforts.htm, st. 1 (1799).
Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837; Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 140.
“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”
Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
St. 2. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
