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Robert Southey

1774 - 1843

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Robert Southey (; 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 895,750 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Robert Southey is the 1,964th most popular writer (up from 2,241st in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,733rd in 2019) and the 162nd most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Southey ranks 1,964 out of 7,302Before him are Gian Giorgio Trissino, Sæmundr fróði, Pir Sultan Abdal, Pierre Klossowski, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, and Hincmar. After him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, László Krasznahorkai, Miloš Crnjanski, Fan Zhongyan, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, and Péter Esterházy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Robert Southey ranks 17Before him are William Henry, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Charles Bell, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. After him are Lord William Bentinck, Francis Baily, Matthew Flinders, Pierre Rode, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Marie-Denise Villers. Among people deceased in 1843, Robert Southey ranks 14Before him are Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. After him are Charles Macintosh, Alexis Bouvard, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, and Casimir Delavigne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Southey ranks 1,501 out of 8,785Before him are Emily Watson (1967), Maggie Reilly (1956), Anthony Trollope (1815), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), and Paul Bettany (1971). After him are Dennis Nilsen (1945), Elsa Lanchester (1902), Herbert Kilpin (1870), Christopher Hitchens (1949), Matthew Boulton (1728), and Andrew Parker Bowles (1939).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Southey ranks 162Before him are Colin Wilson (1931), Joseph Addison (1672), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Edward Young (1683), and Anthony Trollope (1815). After him are Christopher Isherwood (1904), Karen Armstrong (1944), Philip Kerr (1956), Clive Barker (1952), George MacDonald (1824), and James Hilton (1900).