Robert Southey Lives of Labouring-Class Poets

The Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, unites several poets under the ‘uneducated’ banner, being the first to identify them as a group and claiming their their writing was worth consideration as that of a class. The book''s foundational role contributes to the current interest in labouring-class/self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and cultur...