FOOTNOTES
FOOTNOTES TO THE PREFACE
Life, Vol. I. p. 192.
Southey requested a Frenchman ambitious of translating his Roderick, to do so in prose, not because he preferred that method in general, but because he believed that “poetry of the higher order is as impossible in French, as it is in Chinese!”—Life, Vol. IV. p. 100.
Life, Vol. III. p. 44.
Southey—Preface to A Vision of Judgment.