The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson (eBook, PDF) - Southey, Robert
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Southey is a magnificent writer, and Nelson a magnificent subject. Southey's prose is crisp and measured. He writes with such restraint, that his rare moments of high emotion are especially powerful. His sense of narrative is strong, and he makes Nelson's exploits dramatic and exciting. Nelson led a glorious life of military exploit and high romance. It is a gripping story, which takes the reader from rural Norfolk where he was born, to the Americas, the Caribbean, the Baltic and all over the Mediterranean, where Nelson achieved his greatest feats and committed his direst misdeeds. The story…mehr

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Southey is a magnificent writer, and Nelson a magnificent subject. Southey's prose is crisp and measured. He writes with such restraint, that his rare moments of high emotion are especially powerful. His sense of narrative is strong, and he makes Nelson's exploits dramatic and exciting. Nelson led a glorious life of military exploit and high romance. It is a gripping story, which takes the reader from rural Norfolk where he was born, to the Americas, the Caribbean, the Baltic and all over the Mediterranean, where Nelson achieved his greatest feats and committed his direst misdeeds. The story of his love for Emma Hamilton is moving—even if Southey tries to reduce this aspect of his life as much as possible. The story of his actions in Naples is shocking—and Southey does well to address it. This book has long been remembered as a masterpiece of biography, concise, shapely and inspiring.
Autorenporträt
Robert Southey, an English Romantic poet, served as Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Southey, like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, started out as a radical but gradually grew more conservative as he came to admire Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, including Byron, accused him of siding with the establishment for financial and social reasons. He is best known for the poem "After Blenheim" and the original version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to parents Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. He attended Westminster School in London (where he was expelled for authoring an essay in The Flagellant, a periodical he founded that attributed the creation of flogging to the Devil), as well as Balliol College in Oxford. Southey arrived at the University of Oxford with "a heart full of poetry and feeling, a head full of Rousseau and Werther, and my religious principles shaken by Gibbon . He subsequently stated of Oxford, "All I learnt was a little swimming and a little boating".