william wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge

He died on 21 March 1843 and was buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, where he had worshipped for forty years. His mind was giving way when he wrote a last letter to his friend Walter Savage Landor in 1839, but he continued to mention Landor's name when generally incapable of mentioning anyone. The marriage broke down, not least because of his increasing dementia. In 1837, Edith died and Southey remarried, to Caroline Anne Bowles, also a poet, on 4 June 1839. In 1821, Southey wrote A Vision of Judgment, to commemorate George III, in the preface to which he attacked Byron who, as well as responding with a parody, The Vision of Judgment (see below), mocked him frequently in Don Juan. He was appointed laureate in 1813, a post he came greatly to dislike. While writing prodigiously, he received a government pension in 1807, and in 1809 started a long association with the Quarterly Review, which provided almost his only income for most of his life.

Mary Matilda Betham, Portrait of Herbert, 1809 In 1799, Southey and Coleridge were involved with early experiments with nitrous oxide (laughing gas), conducted by the Cornish scientist Humphry Davy. He then wrote many ballads, went to Spain in 1800, and on his return settled in the Lake District. The same year, he travelled to Portugal, and wrote Joan of Arc, published in 1796. In 1795 he married Edith Fricker, whose sister Sara married Coleridge. The same year, Southey, Coleridge, Robert Lovell and several others discussed creating an idealistic community (' pantisocracy') on the banks of the Susquehanna River in America.

Experimenting with a writing partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, most notably in their joint composition of The Fall of Robespierre, Southey published his first collection of poems in 1794.

He did, however, write a play, Wat Tyler (which, in 1817, after he became Poet Laureate, was published, to embarrass him, by his enemies). He later said of Oxford, 'All I learnt was a little swimming. Southey went to Oxford with 'a heart full of poetry and feeling, a head full of Rousseau and Werther, and my religious principles shaken by Gibbon'. He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant, a magazine he originated, attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil), and at Balliol College, Oxford. Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London

William wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge