From Southey to Bryson
Stephen Roberts reviews some of Christchurch’s distinguished literary visitors
Published in May ’22
Mudeford, where Coleridge stayed in a cottage with a parlour door leading to a beach garden
HE was our third longest-serving Poet Laureate and one of the triumvirate of celebrated Lake Poets, but is famous now by name more than by deed. If anything, Robert Southey (1774-1843) seems to have become irredeemably linked with a miscellany including the nursery classic, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, which had previously existed only in the oral tradition. ‘That’s a bit rum,’ the Ancient Mariner might have said, but we are mixing poets like metaphors. There are several things…
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