Description
This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Selected Shorter Poems794–1810 -- 1 To the Nettle (1794) -- 2 Botany-Bay Eclogue. Elinor (1794) -- 3 The Retrospect (1795) -- 4 Sonnet from Poems (1795) -- 4.1 The Faded Flower -- 5 To the Exiled Patriots (1795) -- 6 Elegy. Written in May, 1794 (1796) -- 7 Mortality (1796) -- 8 Othryades, a Mono-Drama (1796) -- 9 Sonnet (‘Pleasant it is awhile to linger here’) (1796) -- 10 Sonnet (‘As one, whom the dark phantoms of the night’) (1796) -- 11 The Death of Joshua (1796) -- 12 To a Frog (1796) -- 13 Sonnet (‘Evening, as musing on my lonely way’) (1796) -- 14 Sonnet (‘With wayworn feet a pilgrim woe-begone’) (1796) -- 15 To Mary Wollstonecraft (1797) -- 16 The Triumph of Woman (1797) -- 17 Poems on the Slave Trade (1797) -- 17.1 Sonnet (‘Hold your mad hands! for ever on the plain’) -- 17.2 Sonnet (‘Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair’) -- 17.3 Sonnet (‘Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run’) -- 17.4 Sonnet (‘’Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep’) -- 17.5 Sonnet (‘Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword’) -- 17.6 Sonnet (‘High in the air expos’d the Slave is hung’) -- 18 To the Genius of Africa (1797) -- 19 To my own miniature picture, taken at two years of age (1797) -- 20 The Pauper’s Funeral (1797) -- 21 Ode written on the First of January, 1794 (1797) -- 22 Inscriptions (1797) -- 22.1 For a Tablet at Godstow Nunnery -- 22.2 For a Column at Newbury -- 22.3 For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon -- 22.4 For the Apartment in Chepstow-Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years -- 22.5 For a Monument at Silbury-Hill -- 22.6 For a Monument in the New Forest -- 22.7 For a Tablet on the Banks of a Stream -- 22.8 For the Cenotaph at Ermenonville -- 23 Birth-Day Odes (1797) -- 23.1 1793 -- 23.2 1796 -- 24 Botany-Bay Eclogues (1797) -- 24.1 Elinor -- 24.2 Humphrey and William -- 24.3 John, Samuel, and Richard -- 24.4 Frederic -- 25 Sonnets from Poems 1797 (1797) -- 25.1 ‘Go Valentine and tell that lovely maid’ -- 25.2 ‘Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way’ -- 25.3 ‘Not to thee Bedford mournful is the tale’ -- 25.4 ‘What tho’ no sculptur’d monument proclaim’ -- 25.5 ‘Hard by the road, where on that little mound’ -- 25.6 To a Brook Near the Village of Corston -- 25.7 To the Evening Rainbow -- 25.8 ‘With many a weary step, at length I gain’ -- 25.9 ‘Fair is the rising morn when o’er the sky’ -- 25.10 ‘How darkly o’er yon far-off mountain frowns’ -- 26 Sappho (1797) -- 27 Ode written on the First of December 1793 (1797) -- 28 Written on Sunday Morning (1797) -- 29 On the Death of a Favourite Old Spaniel (1797) -- 30 To Contemplation (1797) -- 31 To Horror (1797) -- 32 The Soldier’s Wife. Dactylics (1797) -- 33 The Widow. Sapphics (1797) -- 34 To the Chapel Bell (1797) -- 35 The Race of Banquo (1797) -- 36 Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin (1797) -- 37 Mary (1797) -- 38 Donica (1797) -- 39 Rudiger (1797) -- 40 Hymn to the Penates (1797) -- 41 Sonnet (Lonely my way, when last along this road) (1797) -- 42 Retrospective musings, written January 15, 1797 (1797) -- 43 Lines written on Monte Salgueiro (1797) -- 44 Sonnet (‘Another mountain yet! I thought this brow’) (1797) -- 45 Lines upon the Widow of Villa Franca (1797) -- 46 Lines upon Christmas Day (1797) -- 47 Inscription for a Monument, where Juan de Padilla suffered death (1797) -- 48 Inscription for a Column at Truxillo (1797) -- 49 Ode (‘When at morn, the muleteer’) (1797) -- 50 Musings after visiting the Convent of Arrabida (1797) -- 51 Sonnet (‘Cheerless my road, and long and lone the way’) (1797) -- 52 To Night (1797) -- 53 Aristodemus, a monodrama (1797) -- 54 Hannah, a Plaintive Tale (1797) -- 55 To A. S. Cottle, from Robert Southey (1797) -- 56 Botany-Bay Eclogue. Edward and Susan (1798) -- 57 On the Settlement of Sierra Leona (1798) -- 58 Sonnet. The Bee (1798) -- 59 Inscription. For a Column in Smithfield where Wat Tyler was killed (1798) -- 60 The Ring (1798) -- 61 Sonnet (‘Smile on sweet infant!’) (1798) -- 62 St David’s Day (1798) -- 63 March the First (1798) -- 64 Scriptural Ode. Wednesday, March 7,8 the Day appointed for a Fast (1798) -- 65 The Ides of March. March 15 (1798) -- 66 Lord William (1798) -- 67 March 18th. King Edward the Martyr, murdered at Corfe. Inscription for a Monument at Corfe Castle (1798) -- 68 Sonnet. To Joseph Gerald, 1794 (1798) -- 69 Inscription for a Monument at Merida (1798) -- 70 The Lover’s Rock (1798) -- 71 Jasper (1798) -- 72 St Patrick’s Purgatory (1798) -- 73 The Remembrance of Youth is a Sigh. From the Proverbs of Ali (1798) -- 74 King John Crowned. Epitaph (1798) -- 75 May 29 – Ode (1798) -- 76 Lines. On leaving a Place of Residence (1798) -- 77 The Advantages of a Remonstrance (1798) -- 78 A War-Poem. (On the Late Mr. Blythe, a Midshipman on board The Mars) (1798) -- 79 The Origin of the Rose (1798) -- 80 Lines to a Stream (1798) -- 81 The Complaints of the Poor (1798) -- 82 The Idiot. The circumstances related in the following ballad happened some years since in Herefordshire (1798) -- 83 The Emblem (1798) -- 84 Inscription for Sherwood Forest (1798) -- 85 The System of Coercion. A Sonnet from Scripture (1798) -- 86 July Thirteenth. Charlotte Corde executed for putting Marat to death (1798) -- 87 Saul and His Asses (1798) -- 88 The Negro Child. Sonnet (1798) -- 89 Jehosophat. Sonnet (1798) -- 90 Inscription for a Monument where the Battle of Barnet was fought (1798) -- 91 Ode. The Spanish Armada (1798) -- 92 Ode. The Martins (1798) -- 93 The Battle of Blenheim (1798) -- 94 Sonnet. The Plagues of Egypt – Their Cause and Cure (1798) -- 95 Lucretia. A Monodrama (1798) -- 96 The Massacre of St Bartholomew (1798) -- 97 Ode. The Death of Wallace (1798) -- 98 The Contrast (1798) -- 99 Stanzas (‘Sweet to the morning traveller’) (1798) -- 100 Inscription. For Cardiff Castle, where Robert of Normandy was confined by his brother Henry the First (1798) -- 101 King Henry and the Hermit of Dreux. The following poem is founded on a circumstance related in Mezeray (1798) -- 102 Night (1798) -- 103 The Battle of Bosworth. An Eclogue (1798) -- 104 To a Friend (1798) -- 105 Inscription. For the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey (1798) -- 106 Simile. The Ivy’d Castle (1798) -- 107 Henry, the Hermit (1798) -- 108 Lines. Written on a view of Malvern Hills (1798) -- 109 Ode (‘Man hath a weary pilgrimage’) (1798) -- 110 Bishop Bruno (1798) -- 111 Sonnet (‘Beware a speedy friend, th’ Arabian said) (1798) -- 112 The Well of St Keyne (1798) -- 113 Lines on visiting Lanthony Abbey (1798) -- 114 Inscription for a Tablet at Penshurst, the birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney (1798) -- 115 Sonnet. On seeing a Vessel leave the Port (1798) -- 116 The Holly-Tree; an Emblem (1798) -- 117 Lines, written amid the Ruins of Abergavenny Castle (1798) -- 118 Inscription for a Monument in the Vale of Ewias (1798) -- 119 Epitaph on Algernon Sidney (1798) -- 120 Sonnet to a Friend (1798) -- 121 Ode (‘In vain the trav’ller seeks Aberffraw’s tow’rs’) (1798) -- 122 To Joseph Cottle (1798) -- 123 Sonnet – To a Goose (1799) -- 124 History (1799) -- 125 The Old Man’s Comforts, and how he procured them (1799) -- 126 Ode (‘Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul’) (1799) -- 127 St Romuald (1799) -- 128 The Circumstances related in the following lines happened at the evacuation of Toulon (1799) -- 129 Epitaph. On Joseph Gerald (1799) -- 130 To a Friend (1799) -- 131 Cortez. History is Philosophy, teaching by example (1799) -- 132 Inscription under an Oak (1799) -- 133 The Filbert (1799) -- 134 Metrical Letter (1799) -- 135 The Cross Roads (1799) -- 136 The Sailor who had served in the Slave Trade (1799) -- 137 A Ballad, shewing how an old woman rode double, and who rode before her (1799) -- 138 The Surgeon’s Warning (1799) -- 139 English Eclogues (1799) -- 139.1 The Old Mansion-House -- 139.2 The Grandmother’s Tale -- 139.3 The Funeral -- 139.4 The Sailor’s Mother -- 139.5 The Witch -- 139.6 The Ruined Cottage -- 140 To a Spider (1799) -- 141 The Soldier’s Funeral. A Fragment (1799) -- 142 Chimalpoca. A monodrama, founded on an event in the Mexican history (1799) -- 143 The Oak of Our Fathers (1799) -- 144 Love Elegy. The Poet relates how he procured Delia’s pocket-handkerchief (1799) -- 145 The Tax repealed; or, an historical ballad of King Edward the Confessor (1799) -- 146 Inscription in a Forest (1799) -- 147 Ode. The Battle of Pultowa (1799) -- 148 Inscription. For a Monument at King William’s Cove, Torbay (1799) -- 149 St Michael’s Chair and who sat there (1799) -- 150 Inscription. For a Monument at Old Sarum (1799) -- 151 Love Elegy. The Poet relates how he stole a lock of Delia’s Hair, and her anger (1799) -- 152 Sonnet (‘Thou linger’st, spring! still wintry is the scene’) (1799) -- 153 The Pig – a Colloquial Poem (1799) -- 154 Epigram (‘Tom, dost thou see the weathercock’) (1799) -- 155 The circumstance on which the following ballad is founded, happened not many years ago in Bristol (1799) -- 156 Ode. To Silence, alias Unanimity (1799) -- 157 The Poet Perplext (1799) -- 158 The Ebb Tide (1799) -- 159 Monodrama. The Wife of Fergus (1799) -- 160 Inscription, for a Monument at Taunton (1799) -- 161 Ode, to a Pig, while his nose was boring (1799) -- 162 To a Dancing Bear. Recommended to the Advocates for the Slave Trade (1799) -- 163 Sonnet on Leaving a Favourite Place of Residence (1799) -- 164 The Song of the Old American Indian (1799) -- 165 The King of the Crocodiles (1799) -- 166 A Morning Landscape (1799) -- 167 Telemachos – the Martyr (1799) -- 168 Sonnet, on seeing a Ship entering Port (1799) -- 169 Song of the Araucans, during a thunder-storm (1799) -- 170 Inscription. For a Monument at Oxford, opposite Balliol Gate-Way (1799) -- 171 Verses intended to have been addressed to His Grace the Duke of Portland, Chancellor of the University, &c. on his installation at Oxford, 1793 (1799) -- 172 To a College Cat. Written soon after the Installation at Oxford, 1793 (1799) -- 173 Eclogue, by Robert Southey, The Last of the Family (1799) -- 174 The Dirge of the American Widow (1799) -- 175 Amatory Sonnet. By Abel Shufflebottom -- 176 National Songs – No. 4. The Huron’s Address to the Dead (1799) -- 177 The Coming of Winter (1799) -- 178 Reflections on an Old Pair of Shoes (1799) -- 179 Epigram (‘Doris can find no taste in tea’) (1799) -- 180 God’s Judgment on a Bishop (1799) -- 181 National Songs – No. V. The Peruvian’s dirge over the body of His Father (1799) -- 182 Eclogue. The Wedding (1800) -- 183 Sonnet (‘A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee’) (1800) -- 184 Dramatic Fragment (1800) -- 185 John Bull’s Invitation (1803) -- 186 Queen Urraca and the Five Martyrs of Morocco (1803) -- 187 Epigram. – On the War (1803) -- 188 Another Epigram. – [On the War] (1803) -- 189 ‘Which is Bonaparte’s road to Heaven’ (1803) -- 190 The Inchcape Rock (1803) -- 191 Stanzas written after a long absence (1803) -- 192 A Lamentation (1803) -- 193 Epigram. Gallus and Taurus (1803) -- 194 Monodrama. Florinda (1804) -- 195 Sonnet to Lord Percy, on his late motion for the gradual -- of slavery in the West-Indies (1807) -- 196 The Alderman’s Funeral; an English Eclogue. – Original (1810) -- 197 Verses. Spoken in the Theatre at Oxford upon the Installation of Lord Grenville (1811) -- Southey’s Notes -- Selected Unpublished Poems -- II.1 Selected Juvenilia -- II.1.1 Zimri -- II.1.2 Sonnet (‘Fierce Darts The Sun His Scorching Rays’) -- II.2 Selected Unpublished Poems c. 1793–1810 -- II.2.1 ‘The Guns have Ceased their Thunder! – Dreadful Pause –’ -- II.2.2 Fragment of an Ode (‘O Dear Dear England! O my Mother Isle’) -- Collaborations -- III.1 The Devil’s Thoughts -- III.1.1 The Devil’s Thoughts (1799) -- III.1.2 The Devil’s Walk -- III.1.2.1 The Devil’s Walk (1838) -- III.1.2.2 Autograph MSS relating to RS’s work on the poem post-1799 -- III.2 Mohammed. Book 2 -- Editor’s Notes -- Appendix: Poems not Included in this Volume: Listing of Southey’s Original Poems Published 1794–1810; Original Poems Written During This Period and Published at a Later Date; Poems Published 1798–9 and Conjecturally Attributed to Southey -- Index.
