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“There are but too many of these long good-byes in life.”

A restrained acknowledgement of the separations that accumulate through life · Letter to Neville White, 8 November 1814

About Robert Southey

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…

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