Thanks for posting Southey. Not one of the Greats yet a most thoughtful poet. He was very important to other writers and thinkers in his day, and had a role in many important developments -- including the Oxford Movement and resulting "Church Revival" in Anglican Christianity. He could be censorious but to his credit was a morally sensitive poet. A good example of his chief concern (as he aged) was his poem on the lesson learned from Fair Rosamund, King Henry II's mistress who via her serious penitence evidently became a saint (see “Inscription for a Tablet at Godstow Nunnery”).
Thanks for posting Southey. Not one of the Greats yet a most thoughtful poet. He was very important to other writers and thinkers in his day, and had a role in many important developments -- including the Oxford Movement and resulting "Church Revival" in Anglican Christianity. He could be censorious but to his credit was a morally sensitive poet. A good example of his chief concern (as he aged) was his poem on the lesson learned from Fair Rosamund, King Henry II's mistress who via her serious penitence evidently became a saint (see “Inscription for a Tablet at Godstow Nunnery”).