Summary: <strong>Robert Southey</strong> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ˈsaʊði/</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ˈsʌði/</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southey#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[a]</a> 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic</a> school, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poet laureate</a> from 1813 until his death. Like the other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Poets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lake Poets</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Wordsworth</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, Southey had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Byron</a>, accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as author of the poem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Blenheim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>After Blenheim</em></a> and the original version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears</em></a>. <em>-- Bio from Wikipedia. </em><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
