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Robert Southey: History, Politics, Religion (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

By Stuart Andrews

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
0230115136, 9780230115132
LCC
PR5467 .A53 2011
Open Library ID
OL25108963M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1664897 bytes)
Series
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Edition
1
Pages
271\271
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Robert Southey’s preoccupation with the presumed danger of admitting Catholics to Parliament, following the Irish Act of Union, has always been an embarrassment to his admirers.  Stuart Andrews, in Robert Southey, argues that the Poet Laureate’s denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue Southey was absolutely consistent—from his first visit to Lisbon in 1795 to his Colloquies published in 1829. Echoes of the debate have faded, but Southey’s partisan rhetoric reflects its intensity and reveals much about the religious culture and concern for English identity in this stormy period

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