About the book: year / Southey, Robert Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 - March 21, 1843)"There was not a single poet who wrote so well and so much and at the same time was so unknown to the public.” Romanticism is a surprising phenomenon in world culture. It became not just a new artistic method in art, it became a special worldview that affected all areas of art: from sculpture to literature. The romantic worldview arose as a result of dissatisfaction with the surrounding world and the failures of the Enlightenment, which, of course, created a “new man”, but not the one I was striving for. Consumerism, leveling, and averageness of personality led to the fact that creators began to seek refuge in everything unusual, in the romantic. Romanticism was formed and developed in different countries in slightly different chronological frameworks and everywhere acquired its own specific features. Robert Southey became an early romantic and a representative of the “lake culture.” school" of English romanticism. This was the first stage in the development of English romanticism, which occurred in the 90s of the 18th century. The Lake school included three poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. There were many similarities in their destinies. All three were at first enthusiastic about the French Revolution, and also together renounced it when they saw the Jacobin terror. Their role in literature is difficult to overestimate; they were the first to take a step in their work from great historical events to the inner world of man, to his soul. Southey's training took place at Westminster School, as well as at Oxford, where he became close to Coleridge. His youth was marked by revolutionary ideas and travels to Spain and Portugal. He has written numerous translations of chivalric romances, such as “Amadis of Gali,” and most of the ballads are based on folklore from various countries. His first drama was published under the name of Coleridge, although two of the three acts of The Fall of Robespierre (1794) were written by R. Southey. Later, the poet became interested in writing historical works and biographies (Life of Nelson), but his source of income was literary criticism. Throughout his life, R. Southey published 55 books, and in 1813 he was appointed poet laureate. He died in Keswick on March 21, 1843.