ABSTRACT
Robert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most influential journal pieces, providing important evidence for students of the political and literary culture of the Romantic period. Edited by Tim Fulford, this volume features a full introduction and detailed editorial notes setting the Essays in their contexts. The volume sets the Essays in the context of the political and social issues and controversies on which they comment, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary and Political History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
volume 39Volume I|208 pages
essay Essay I|13 pages
On Sir Francis Burdett's Motion for Parliamentary Reform; … On the Conduct of the War; … And on the Cry of the Whigs for Peace. 1810
essay Essay II|10 pages
Army and Navy Reforms. 1810
essay Essay III|12 pages
On the Economical Reformers. 1811 61
essay Essay IV|41 pages
On the State of the Poor, The Principle of Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population, And the Manufacturing System. 82 1812
essay Essay V|44 pages
On the State of the Poor, And the Means Pursued by the Society for Bettering their Condition. 1816 227
essay Essay VI|35 pages
On the Accounts of England by Foreign Travellers. 1816 360
essay Essay VII|47 pages
On the State of Public Opinion and the Political Reformers. 1816 567
volume 293Volume II|217 pages
essay Essay VIII|14 pages
A Letter to William Smith, Esq, M.P. 1817
essay Essay IX|36 pages
On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection. 1817 849
essay Essay X|35 pages
On the Means of Improving the People. 1818 1012
essay Essay XI|13 pages
Two Letters Concerning Lord Byron 1822–1824 1108
essay Essay XII|35 pages
On Emigration. 1828 1167
essay Essay XIII|13 pages
On the Catholic Question. 1809 1237
essay Essay XIV|11 pages
On the Catholic Question. 1812 1292
essay Essay XV|58 pages
On the Catholic Question. 1828 1320
