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
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”
On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection, Essay viii, Vol. ii (1817).
“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!”
Robert Southey libro Goldilocks and the Three Bears
"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837).
Canto X, st. 10.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
St. 31. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
“'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.”
St. 3. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
Madoc in Wales http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1805sout.htm#pg001, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.
St. 25. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
“But what they fought each other for
I could not well make out.”
St. 6. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
My Days Among the Dead Are Past http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1957.html, st. 1 (1818).
St. 3. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=LUFjAAAAcAAJ&q=%22every+body+is+a+critic%22&pg=PA277#v=onepage to Robert Rickman (30 May 1804)
Vision of Judgment, original preface (1821).
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 14. Compare: "The march of the human mind is slow", Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii., p. 149.
'On the Corn-Laws', The Quarterly Review, Vol. LI. (March & June 1834), p. 231
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