Robert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most influential journal pieces, providing important evidence for students of the political and literary culture of the Romantic period. Edited by Tim Fulford, this volume features a full introduction and detailed editorial notes setting the Essays in their contexts. The volume sets the Essays in the context of the political and social issues and controversies on which they comment, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary and Political History.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Editorial Introduction
Volume I
I On Sir Francis Burdett’s Motion for Parliamentary Reform; . . . on the Conduct of the War; . . . and on the Cry of the Whigs for Peace. 1810
II Army and Navy Reforms. 1810
III On the Economical Reformers. 1811
IV On the State of the Poor, the Principle of Mr. Malthus’s Essay on Population, and the Manufacturing System. 1812
V On the State of the Poor, and the Means Pursued by the Society for Bettering their Condition. 1816
VI On the Accounts of England by Foreign Travellers. 1816
VII On the State of Public Opinion and the Political Reformers. 1816
Volume I Endnotes
Volume II
VIII A Letter to William Smith, Esq, M.P. 1817
IX On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection. 1817
X On the Means of Improving the People. 1818
XI Two Letters Concerning Lord Byron 1822–1824
Letter I. To the Editor of the Courier. 1822
Letter II. To the Editor of the Courier. 1824XII On Emigration. 1828
XIII On the Catholic Question. 1809
XIV On the Catholic Question. 1812
XV On the Catholic Question. 1828
Volume II Endnotes
Index
Biography
Tim Fulford is an experienced editor of Southey’s poetry and prose, and also a critic and historian of the politics of Romantic writers, including Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth.
