LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Boarding school
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Debtors prison
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The Park
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The Military
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Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant, a magazine he originated, attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil), and at Balliol College, Oxford.
Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Southey, (born Aug. 12, 1774, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.-died March 21, 1843, Keswick, Cumberland), English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose who is chiefly remembered for his association with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, both of whom were leaders of the early Romantic movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774 and died in Keswick in 1843. The son of a bankrupt linen-draper, he was educated at Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford, which he left without taking a degree.
Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Southey died on 21 March 1843 at Greta Hall and was buried on 23 March at Crosthwaite church in Keswick.