Education
Southey was sent down for writing a magazine article condemning flogging.
Southey was sent down for writing a magazine article condemning flogging.
Robert Southey published his first collection of poems in 1794.
In 1799 Southey and Coleridge were involved with early experiments with nitrous oxide (laughing gas).
In 1808 Southey wrote Letters From England, an account of a tour of the country supposedly from a foreigner's perspective. The book contained an accurate picture of English ways at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The best-known Southey's poems The Inchcape Rock, God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop, After Blenheim and Cataract of Lodore are still read by British schoolchildren.