Romantic literature in English how he "inverted the traditional hierarchy of poetic genres, subjects, and style by elevating humble and rustic life and the plain [...] into the main subject and medium of poetry in general", and how, in Coleridge's words, he awakens in the reader "freshness of sensation" in his depiction of familiar, commonplace objects. 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
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