British literature Among Wordsworth's most important poems, are "Michael", "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", "Resolution and Independence", "" and the long, autobiographical, epic "The Prelude". Robert Southey (1774–1843) was another of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has been long eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English essayist, best known for his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821), an autobiographical account of his laudanum and its effect on his life. The
Robert Hancock (engraver) Wesley (1790), after J. Miller. About 1796, in Bristol, he drew small crayon portraits engraved by Richard Woodman for Joseph Cottle's "Reminiscences": of Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These were purchased for the National Portrait Gallery in 1877. Hancock also engraved plates in Valentine Green's "History of Worcester", and the plates in a folio bible published by Pearson & Rollason of Birmingham. Attribution Robert Hancock (engraver) Robert Hancock (1730–1817) was an English engraver. Hancock was born in Staffordshire, studied under Simon François Ravenet, and was at first engaged as an engraver at the Battersea Enamel