What kind of person is robert southey? What are his stories?

Robert southey is a famous English poet and writer, and also an early romantic writer. He was named poet laureate until his death. Southey's representative works include The Battle of Brenheim, No More Association with the Dead, Corner Stone, etc. Under his leadership, folk poetry has been revived.

Southey

The story of Southey

1836 65438+In February, 20-year-old Charlotte Brontexq sent her best poems to robert southey, a famous poet laureate at that time, with a feeling of anxiety, hoping to get the guidance and support from her respected literary predecessors. The following spring, Robert said to Charlotte in a letter: "In nature, grass and trees are arranged by God. Give up your precious and futile pursuit-literature is not a career for women, and it should not be a career for women. " Advise her not to dream of becoming a poet, but it turns out that his trite prejudice is absolutely wrong. Later, Charlotte's literary work Jane Eyre was published, which shocked the British and even the world literary circles and became a rare event in the history of world literature.

What's robert southey like?

He was an early romantic, and under his advocacy, folk style, an ancient form of poetry, was revived. He tried to use irregular blank verse, which laid the foundation for the free verse movement in19th and 20th centuries. From 18 13, he became a poet laureate until his death.

Southey wrote several long narrative poems with oriental color and exotic flavor, and also wrote some short poems with medieval style to express his ambition. Although the former has romanticism and adventure plots, it seems to be procrastinating and pretentious, and its overall achievement is not high, but some of them are still readable.