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    The Curse of Kehama is an 1810 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he suffered...
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    Little Boys Made Of?" is a nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain...
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  • much of the responsibility for the legend's European propagation on the poet Robert Southey, who mentioned it in his poem "The Curse of Kehama," published...
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    Robert Southey (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
    (1807), the observations of a fictitious Spaniard. Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish (1808) The Curse of Kehama (1810) History of Brazil (3 vols.) (1810–1819)...
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    Granville Bantock (category Academics of the University of Birmingham)
    Moore, dedicated to Joseph Holbrooke) Two Orchestral Scenes from The Curse of Kehama: (1) Processional, (2) Jaga-Naut (1894, after Robert Southey, Philharmonic...
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  • Caroline Anne Southey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
    of a military uncle, Sir Harry Burrard. Her private education was mainly at the hands of the writer and artist William Gilpin (1724–1804), vicar of nearby...
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    Southey resumed working on his poem Curse of Kehama after he almost gave up poetry because of the reception of Thalaba the Destroyer and Madoc. This...
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  • (Continuation of the Thousand and One Nights) (1788–1790) Robert Southey – Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) Robert Southey – Curse of Kehama (1810) Lord Byron...
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    Revolt of Islam along with those in Robert Southey's Thalaba and Curse of Kehama. Hunt's Spenserian adaptation influenced John Keats's later use of Spenser...
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    page contained an epigraph from the 1810 The Curse of Kehama by Robert Southey. Shelley gave one copy of the poem, which was published as a twenty-page...
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  • Henry Herbert Southey (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    an English physician. The son of Robert Southey (1745–1792) by his wife, Margaret Hill (1752–1802), and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he...
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  • Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, published anonymously William Sotheby, Constance of Castille Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama Ann Taylor, Jane...
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  • of Charles Brockden Brown"; "Lines on the Burning of the Richmond Theatre"; and a poem to Robert Southey, upon the appearance of his "Curse of Kehama"...
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