Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811–1838
Editors: Tim Fulford and Lynda Pratt
Volume Editors: Rachel Crawford, Diego Saglia and Daniel E White
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 959 3: 234x156mm: £395.00/$725.00
Building on the success of Pickering & Chatto’s 2004 edition of Robert Southey’s early poetry, this edition of his later poetical works completes the project. Central to the new edition, and to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is Roderick. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.
- Includes a section collating the eighty-two shorter poems not published in Volume 5 of Robert Southey Poetical Works 1793-1810, thus rendering the two sets into a collected edition
- New editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index
Contents
Volume 1
Shorter Poems, edited by Lynda Pratt
Occasional poems written and published 1811-38, including: ‘The Cataract of Lodore’, ‘Robert the rhymer's true and particular account of himself’, Ballads (‘March to Moscow’; ‘Brough Bells’; ‘Queen’s Mary Christening’; ‘Roprecht the Robber’; ‘The Young Dragon’), ‘Epitaphs’, ‘Epistle to Allan Cunningham’
Volume 2
Roderick: Last of the Goths (1814), edited by Diego Saglia
Volume 3
Poems from the Laureate Period and Inscriptions (1814-22), edited by Tim Fulford, Lynda Pratt and Daniel E White
Inscriptions: Peninsular War (1814), ‘Inscriptions for the Caledonian Canal’ (1821), ‘Carmen Triumphale’ (1814), Laureate Odes (1814-20), ‘Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo’ (1816), ‘Carmen Nuptiale’ (1816), ‘Funeral Song for the Princess Charlotte’ (1817), ‘Wat Tyler’ (1817), ‘A Vision of Judgement’ (1819)
Volume 4
Fragments and Romances (1822-38), edited by Rachel Crawford and Tim Fulford
‘A Tale of Paraguay’ (1825), ‘All for Love’ (1829), ‘Oliver Newman’ (posthumously published 1847), ‘Robin Hood’, uncollected/unpublished poems