Robert Southey (1774–1843) was an English poet, historian, biographer, and essayist, who remains an indelible figure in the Romantic movement. His contemporaries included the likes of Wordsworth and Coleridge, with whom he formed a close association, thereby becoming a member of the famed Lake Poets. Southey was recognized for his rich and pervasive prose, as well as his fervent interest in histor...