Southey

“The arts babblative and scribblative,” the poet Robert Southey once said.

Chapelaine celebrated her in 12 times 1200 verses; Southey has made her the subject of an epic, and Schiller of a tragedy.

Oh, that Mr. Southey would remember the quotation which he himself brings forward from Jeremy Taylor!

In 1812 he published his first volume, called ‘Metrical Effusions,’ and began a correspondence with Southey.

He belonged to the literary class of which, perhaps, Southey may be regarded as facile princeps.

Here Southey entered steadily and industriously on the life of an author for livelihood; it was by no means unremunerative.