Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

Tim Fulford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032450872
• eBook ISBN: 9781000932911
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, unites several poets under the 'uneducated' banner, being the first to identify them as a group and claiming their their writing was worth consideration as that of a class. The book's foundational role contributes to the current interest in labouring-class/self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and culture. Accompanied by a new introduction written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford, this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary History.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Editorial Introduction
• 1 Southey’s Review of James Grant Raymond, The Life of Thomas Dermody, Interspersed with Pieces of Original Poetry, The Annual Review, 5 (1806), 382–397
• 2 Southey’s Account of the Life of Henry Kirke White, from The Remains Of Henry Kirke White, 2 vols (London, 1807)
• 3 Southey’s Review of Samuel F. B. Morse, Amir Khan, and other Poems: the Remains of Lucretia Maria Davidson, The Quarterly Review, 41 (1829), 289–301
• 4 Southey’s Introduction to Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: with Some Account of the Writer, Written by Himself: and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of Our Uneducated Poets (London, 1831)
• 5 Southey’s Review of Eliza Bray, Fables, and other Pieces in Verse, by Mary Maria Colling, The Quarterly Review, 47 (1832), 81–103
• Appendix I: Correspondence Concerning the Lives
• Appendix II: Reviews of and Comments on the Lives
• Appendix III: The Poems of John Jones
• Endnotes
• Index