ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Southey’s notes to shorter poems. Significant among these are notes on ‘To Horror’ wherein he extracts the picture of consummate horror, from the notes to a Poem written in twelve syllable verse upon the campaign of 1794 and 1795. Notes on the ‘Musings after visiting the Convent of Arrabida’ present a brief on a young man named Paul, to whom at fifteen years of age, his parents lost a great estate. His story is the first distinct account of an hermit in the Christian Church. Notes on ‘The Sailor’s Mother’ include happenings engagement between sailors on board the French ships.
