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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.
They married on 14 November 1795.
She died in 1838.
In 1819 Southey got acquainted with Thomas Telford. That year Southey accompanied his friend on an extensive tour of his engineering projects and kept a diary of the observations. This material was published only in 1929.
They became acquainted in 1808. Savage Landor's early work was admired by Southey and the two had mutual admiration of each other's work.
