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Definition of Southey
1. Noun. English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843).
Definition of Southey
1. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹
2. Proper noun. Robert Southey, English poet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Southey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1850)
"southey AND "THE AIKINS;" HIS INJUSTICE TOWARDS MRS. BARBAULD. [WE willingly give
insertion to the following letter from the valued author of the Memoirs of ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"When the Revolution broke out southey was at Westminster School, where he read
Rousseau and ... In the summer of 1794 southey and Coleridge met at Oxford. ..."