Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Southey NPG D15738

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Thomas Phillips

A poet and man of letters, Southey was a youthful republican whose enthusiasm for the French Revolution can be seen in The Fall of Robespierre which he wrote with Coleridge in 1794. In 1803 he joined Coleridge in the Lake District where he met Wordsworth. The three were dubbed the 'Lake School' by the critic Francis Jeffrey. Southey was Poet Laureate from 1813 to his death. Despite Byron's quip about his 'blank verse and blanker prose', his prose is commonly regarded... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.