1. [Footnote 1 of Letter 92]
Robert Southey (1774-1843) published his
Curse of Kehama
in 1810. It formed a part of a series of heroic poems in which he intended to embody the chief mythologies of the world. In spite of Byron's adverse opinion, it contains magnificent passages, and disputes with
Roderick, the Last of the Goths
(1814), the claim to be the finest of his longer poems. Southey's literary activity was immense. He had already produced
Joan of Arc
(1796),