Editing Robert Southey (section)

==Reputation==

[[File:1845 Edward Hodges Baily marble bust of british poet and historian Robert Southey, Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Bristol.jpg|thumb|Bust of Southey created by [[Edward Hodges Baily]] in 1845, [[Bristol Cathedral]]]]

[[Charles Lamb]], in a [[Letters of Charles Lamb|letter]] to Coleridge, stated, "With ''[[Joan of Arc (poem)|Joan of Arc]]'' I have been delighted, amazed. I had not presumed to expect of any thing of such excellence from Southey. Why the poem is alone sufficient to redeem the character of the age we live in from the imputation of degenerating in Poetry [...] On the whole, I expect Southey one day to rival [[John Milton|Milton]]."<ref>Madden 1972 qtd pp. 45–46</ref>

Regarding ''[[Thalaba the Destroyer]]'', Ernest Bernhard-Kabisch pointed out that "Few readers have been as enthusiastic about it as [[John Henry Newman|Cardinal Newman]] who considered it the most 'morally sublime' of English poems. But the young Shelley reckoned it his favourite poem, and both he and Keats followed its lead in some of their verse narratives."<ref>Bernhardt-Kabisch 1977 pp. 84–85</ref>

While Southey was writing ''Madoc'', [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]] believed that the poem would be superior to the ''[[Aeneid]]''.<ref>Bernhardt-Kabisch 1977 p. 109</ref>

Robert Southey had a notable influence on [[Russian literature]]. [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin]] highly appreciated his work and translated the beginning of the ''Hymn to the Penates'' and ''Madoc'', and was also inspired by the plot of ''Roderick'' to create an original poem on the same plot (''Родрик''). At the beginning of the 20th century, Southey was translated by [[Nikolai Gumilev|Gumilyov]] and [[Mikhail Lozinsky|Lozinsky]]. In 1922, the publishing house "Vsemirnaya Literatura" published the first separate edition of Southey's ballads in Russia, compiled by Gumilyov. In 2006, a bilingual edition prepared by E. Witkowski was published, a significant part of which included new translations.

Southey was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1822.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlists American Antiquarian Society Members Directory].</ref> He was also a member of the [[Royal Spanish Academy]].