Robert Southey buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Parish Church in Cumbria. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. He was also a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Notes Citations Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity.
Sara Coleridge was completed by her daughter, and published in 1873, together with some of her letters, under the title "Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge". The letters show a cultured and highly speculative mind. They contain many apt criticisms of known people and books, and are specially interesting for their allusions to Wordsworth and the Lake Poets. Sara Coleridge died of breast cancer in London on 3 May 1852. Coleridge suffered a number of miscarriages and only two of her children, Herbert and Edith, survived to adulthood. Two of Coleridge's children died in infancy. Her son, Herbert Coleridge (1830–1861), won a