Robert Southey has written a poem in which he speaks about theĬompanionship books have given him. He stayed for nearly two years and during this time began the gradual change from revolutionary to Tory."Reading is seeing by proxy" (Spencer). He wrote many letters from Portugal and Spain, some of which were later published. Shortly afterwards he went to Portugal with his uncle, who was British chaplain in Lisbon.
He did not inform his family of the wedding and this caused a final break with his Aunt Elizabeth, who had disapproved of the Pantisocracy. Southey married Edith a month later and they made their home at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. Coleridge married Sara Fricker in October.
Working in cramped quarters and Southey gradually despairing of the indecisive Coleridge, the two fell out, never to resume the closeness of their friendship. It was here that they first met William Wordsworth. Southey had left Oxford without a degree. The money to finance the American colony did not materialise and the following year the two established themselves back in Bristol. The two then returned to their respective universities.ĭuring the next few months the two remained in contact, although they gradually drew apart as the decisive Southey found Coleridge becoming less fervent both for Pantisocracy and Sara. During this time Southey composed the verse drama 'Joan of Arc' which, embellished with lines from Coleridge, was published two years later. There he proposed to Sara Fricker, partly through the cajoling of Southey, who felt that the three sisters would make a firm foundation for the Pantisocracy. Coleridge returned with Southey to Bristol. Here they met Tom Poole, who developed a friendship with Coleridge which caused him to return to Stowey later. They then went on to Bridgwater and Nether Stowey, then known simply as Stowey, which Coleridge saw for the first time. They then went to Cheddar, which greatly impressed the two and which Southey described in terms reminiscent of a later visit to the Valley of Rocks. Coleridge was introduced to the family and met another sister, Sara, who he was later to marry.Īt the end of August the two set off on a walking tour of Somerset, starting at Southey's mother's in Bath, where they met up with Sara. Mary was one of five sisters and Southey proposed to her sister, Edith whilst recruiting her. Another recruit was Robert Lovell, who had married actress Mary Fricker.
Both started recruiting 'Pantisocrats' and recruits included Southey's seafaring brother, Tom and his widowed mother in Bath. They even proposed to set up an agricultural community in Pennsylvania, America where all property would be shared and everyone would have equal status, an idea that they called Pantisocracy.Ĭoleridge continued on his walking tour but met up with Southey a month later in Bristol, to which Southey had also walked. They both discussed philosophy and Utopian principles, both being convinced that vice was not natural to man and felt that under the right circumstances man could reach near perfection. The two were instantly caught in mutual admiration, Southey admiring Coleridge's eloquence and intellect and Coleridge admiring Southey's decisiveness and strength of character. In 1794 he was introduced to S T Coleridge, who had come to visit friends at Oxford whilst on a walking tour from Cambridge, where he was at university. Here he was told to study what he liked and he started to write poetry. In 1792, soon after his father's bankruptcy and death, he went to Balliol College, Oxford. He supported the French Revolution and opposed the wars against France. His expulsion brought out a rebellious side to his nature. He became a radical and was expelled from Westminster School for publishing an essay against flogging. His childhood was divided between Bristol and Bath, much time being spent in the middle class household of his snobbish and unloved aunt Elizabeth Tyler, from whom he acquired a polished manner. His Uncle and aunt Mary lived at Bishop's Lydeard. His cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington and his grandfather had farmed at Rich's Holford on the Quantocks. Robert Southey was born on August 12th, 1774 above a draper's shop in Wine Street, Bristol belonging to his unsuccessful father. Records of Decisions and Access to Documents.Your Key Contacts at Exmoor National Park Authority.Latest Volunteering Roles and Opportunities.Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme.Information for Farmers and Land Managers.Paddlesteamers, Postcards and Holidays Past.Exmoor Non-Native Invasive Species (ENNIS) Project.
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