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Robert Southey

1774 - 1843

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Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Southey has received more than 821,011 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Southey is the 2,248th most popular writer (down from 1,586th in 2019), the 1,738th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,241st in 2019) and the 191st most popular British Writer.

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  • 820k

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  • 54.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Southey ranks 2,248 out of 5,755. Before him are Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Marie Under, Tavo Burat, Phlegon of Tralles, Johann Peter Hebel, and Karel Hynek Mácha. After him are Pentti Linkola, Noël Coward, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Salvadore Cammarano, Rahel Varnhagen, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Robert Southey ranks 19. Before him are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Christian Leopold von Buch, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Matthew Flinders, Lord William Bentinck, and Francis Baily. After him are Pierre Rode, Karl Mollweide, Václav Tomášek, Daniel D. Tompkins, Marie-Denise Villers, and Meriwether Lewis. Among people deceased in 1843, Robert Southey ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Charles Macintosh, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and Noah Webster. After him are Alexis Bouvard, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, and John Trumbull.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Southey ranks 1,738 out of 7,765. Before him are Tobias Smollett (1721), Cenwalh of Wessex (601), John A. Macdonald (1815), Israel Kirzner (1930), Francis Baily (1774), and Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930). After him are Rufus Sewell (1967), Noël Coward (1899), Antony Beevor (1946), Sid Watkins (1928), Arthur Rackham (1867), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Southey ranks 191. Before him are Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Irvine Welsh (1957), Matthew Arnold (1822), Kenneth Grahame (1859), Richard Aldington (1892), and Tobias Smollett (1721). After him are Noël Coward (1899), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Rebecca West (1892), William Beckford (1760), and Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868).

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