National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 156
, to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, spentmainly in Italy. His poems have raised him to the highest rankamong poets, and as a lyrical poet he remains unsurpassed. His prosewritings are, too, of great excellence. He was accidentally drownedthrough shipwreck between Leghorn and Spezia. Bequeathed by his… … t42 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. ROBERT SOUTHEY, LL.D. 1774 1843. Painted in ijq6 by Peter Vandyke. Poet Laureate. His principal works were, in poetry, the epics Joanof Arc, Thalaba, the Curse of Kehama/ and Roderick, the Lastof the Goths ; and, in prose, the History of Brazil, The History ofthe…
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