The Third Lake Poet: rediscovering Robert Southey

We are very privileged to be able to use the houseplace of Dove Cottage as the Wordsworth family did – as a place to share a cup of tea and slices of toast together, accompanied by lively conversation and an opportunity to learn something new. In six short, informal talks this December we will hear from six Wordsworth Trust staff on topics connected to Wordsworth and Romanticism that particularly interest them. The refreshments are included in the cost of the ticket; the toast will be made on the open fire in the kitchen during the talk. ‘My hopes are with the Dead, anon My place with them will be, […] Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.’ So wrote Robert Southey in his 1818 poem ‘My Days among the Dead are Past’. Devastatingly (and somewhat ironically), Southey’s posthumous legacy is sorely eclipsed by the celebrity of his fellow Lake Poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and he’s only vaguely remembered today. But who was he really, and why has history been so unkind to him? Join Assistant Curator (Collections) Poppy Garrett for an exploration into the life of a man who believed that a home wasn’t a home without a great many children and kittens; who penned the first version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and who (controversially!) discouraged Charlotte Brontë from pursuing a career in literature.
Admission
£7.00 (includes tea and toast)

Website
https://wordsworth.org.uk/events/the-third-lake-poet-rediscovering-robert-southey/

Source: https://www.culture24.org.uk/nw000053?id=EVENT592846