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Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/; August 12, 1774 in Bristol– March 21, 1843 in London) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called “Lake Poets”, and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.
Muchos de sus poemas aún se leen por los escolares británicos, siendo los más conocidos The Inchcape Rock y After Blenheim (posiblemente uno de los primeros poemas pacifistas o antibélicos); es asimismo autor de una muy divulgada versión inglesa del cuento popular Ricitos de oro y los tres osos.
Autor prolífico, otros de sus títulos son “Roderick, the Last of the Goths”, “Joan of Arc”, “The Curse of Kehama” y “Madoc”. Southey escribió poemarios, novelas históricas y biografías, centrándose en personalidades como Tomás Moro, William Cowper y Horatio Nelson.
Southey's poetry is characterized by its narrative drive, vivid imagery, and skillful use of language. He was particularly adept at creating evocative descriptions of landscapes and historical events. While his longer poems sometimes suffer from narrative sprawl, his shorter works often exhibit a tight focus and memorable emotional impact.
Southey has been called the architect and chief practitioner of a “Georgian style” in prose, a style that is pure and practical, in contrast to the ponderous and ornate solemnity of the likes of Samuel Johnson or Edward Gibbon or the rhetorical overkill of Edmund Burke.
A desperate fight!—good tidings of great joy! Old England triumphed! yet another day. Of glory for the ruler of the waves! For those who fell, ’twas in their country’s cause, They have their passing paragraphs of praise. And are forgotten. There was one who died. In that day’s glory, whose obscurer name. No proud historian’s page will chronicle.
Poeta inglés, Robert Southey perteneció al movimiento de los poetas Lakistas, aunque su obra fuera ensombrecida por sus colegas William Wordsworth y Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
