Southey, Robert

Japanese: サウジー（英語表記）Southey， Robert

Born: August 12, 1774, Bristol
[died] March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland. British poet and biographer. At one time he was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, and together with S. Coleridge planned to build an ideal egalitarian society on the banks of the Susquehanna River in America, but later became a staunch conservative. After 1803 he settled in Keswick in the so-called "Lake District," and formed a friendship with Wordsworth. He remained a hardworking professional writer, leaving behind a large number of poems, histories, essays, and biographies. In 1813 he became Poet Laureate. His long poems, such as The Curse of Kehama (1810), which was once highly popular, are no longer read, and today he is remembered for a few lyric poems as one of the Lake Poets, and for The Life of Nelson (13).

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Japanese:

[生]1774.8.12. ブリストル
[没]1843.3.21. カンバーランド，ケジック
イギリスの詩人，伝記作家。一時フランス革命の熱烈な支持者となり，S. T.コールリッジとアメリカのサスケハナ河畔に理想的平等社会の建設を計画したが，後年は頑固な保守主義者となった。 1803年以降いわゆる「湖水地方」のケジックに定住，ワーズワスと親交を結んだ。勤勉な職業作家として終始し，多量の詩，歴史書，随筆，伝記を残した。 13年桂冠詩人となる。一時世評が高かった『ケハマの呪い』 The Curse of Kehama (1810) などの長詩は読まれなくなり，今日では湖畔詩人の一人としての少数の抒情詩と『ネルソン伝』 The Life of Nelson (13) とによって記憶されている。

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