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Robert Southey (1774-1843) was a English poet and author, friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Short Biography:

In 1813 he became Poet Laureate, but his verse is little read today. He is better known for his Life of Nelson in 1813, and his letters.

He abandoned his early revolutionary views, and from 1808 contributed regularly to the Tory Quarterly Review.

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