ABSTRACT
Robert Southey’s first laureate poem, ‘Carmen Triumphale, For the Commencement of the Year 1814. By Robert Southey, Esq. Poet-Laureat’, was published on New Year’s Day, 1814. The poem celebrates recent martial victories and hails the imminent ‘Deliverance for Mankind’ from the Napoleonic menace: Force must be crushed by Force, The power of Evil by the power of Good, Ere Order bless the suffering world once more, Or Peace return again. . . . Glory to God! Deliverance for Mankind! 1
