Southey (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Southey But fate had already pronounced that Southey was to be poet, and not player. Tasso and Ariosto and Spenser claimed him, or so he dreamed. By this time he had added to his epic cycle Pope's Homer and Mickle's Lu siad. That prose romance, embroidered with sixteenth century affectations, but with a true chivalric sentiment at its heart, Sidney's Arcadia, was also known to him. He had read Arabian and mock-arabian tales, he had spent the pocket-money Of many weeks on a Josephus, and he had picked up from Goldsmith something Of Greek and Roman history. So breathed upon by poetry, and so furnished with erudition, Southey, at twelve years Old, found it the most natural thing in the world to become an epic poet. His removal from the old Welshman's school having been hastened by that terrible message which Miss Tyler could not forgive, Southey, before proceeding'to Westminster, was placed for a year under a clergyman, believed to be competent to carry his pupils beyond Tity rus and Melibaeus. But, except some skill in writing Eng lish themes, little was gained from this new tutor. The year, however, was not lost. I do not remember. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.