“It is not the settling of a cash account that can cancel obligations like these.”
About Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843
Robert Southey was born in Bristol on 12 August 1774 and died at Greta Hall, near Keswick in the Lake District, on 21 March 1843. During his lifetime he was among the most visible men of letters in Britain: a poet, historian, biographer, reviewer, editor, translator, political commentator, children’s writer, and, from…