The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)

Loved and loathed in equal measures by his contemporaries, the poet, biographer, historian and social and cultural critic Robert Southey (1774-1843) was one of the most public and controversial figures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. The Collected Letters will make it possible for scholars to access for the first time his complete surviving correspondence. By providing annotated and accurate texts of Southey's letters, newly edited from manuscript originals, and by mounting them on a free-access, fully-searchable website via the international, peer-reviewed web-journal Romantic Circles, the edition will completely revolutionize both availability of the letters and scholarly understanding of their importance. The edition is divided into eight parts. These will be broken down as follows: I: 1791-1797, II:1798-1803, III:1804-09, IV:1810-15, V:1816-21, VI:1822-27, VII:1828-33, VIII:1834-39.