ABSTRACT
Robert Southey died at 8am on 21 March 1843. He was buried on 24 March, ‘a dark and stormy morning’, ‘at the western end of the beautiful churchyard of Crosthwaite’ (L&C, VI, p. 391). Within two days, an epitaph by Walter Savage Landor appeared in The Examiner. 1 One of the earliest acts of memorialising the late Poet Laureate, it was soon joined by others in print and stone.
