1817… How Robert Southey avoided getting “Cancelled” 27 Aug 202027 Aug 2020 By Stephen Basdeo The following is an adaptation of some of the material in my book The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018). You’re an up-and-coming…
18th century… A Never-Before-Seen Poem by Robert Southey, written in 1791 5 Oct 2019 Edited by Stephen Basdeo and Mark Truesdale The summer of 1791 was an unusually wet one. The young schoolboy, and future Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, therefore had a lot of…
18th century… Robert Southey’s “Wedding of Robin Hood and Maid Marian” 8 Jul 20198 Jul 2019 By Stephen Basdeo Dr Mark Truesdale and I are currently transcribing Robert Southey’s ‘Harold; or, The Castle of Morford’ (Bodleian MS Eng. Misc. e. 21), which was originally written in…
18th century… Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Tale of Vagrancy and Imprisonment, by Robert Southey (1774-1843) 21 Dec 201721 Dec 2017 One of the writers that I have encountered frequently in my research upon both Robin Hood and Wat Tyler is the Romantic author and Poet Laureate, Robert Southey (1774–1843).[i] Southey’s…
18th century… The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or, The Castle of Morford” (1791) 13 Jun 2017 (This is an updated version of an earlier post I made) Scholars generally point to 1819 as the year that the first Robin Hood novels appeared, these being the anonymous…
18th century… The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or the Castle of Morford” (1791) 18 Nov 2016 The first Robin Hood novel to be published was the anonymous Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time (1819). A few months after this Walter Scott published his enormously…
