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THE INCHCAPE ROCK is a popular poem written by Robert Southey, a renowned poet of English Literature. He was the poet of the Romantic Age. His contemporaries were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. He was born on 12th August 1774 at Bristol,
ROBERT SOUTHEY

Gloucestershire, England and expired on March 21st 1843 at Keswick, Cumberland. He was both a poet and a prose writer of versatile topics. He was the poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843. He was the son of a Linen Draper (clothe merchant). He was reared up by his aunt Elizabeth Tyler. He started his education at Westminster School. formerly known as Saint Peter's College situated near Westminster Abbey. Later continued at Balliol College, Oxford. 

HIS FAMOUS WRITINGS
COLERIDGE
At the early stage, his writings bore glimpses of French Revolutions. His long poem JOAN OF ARC  which was published in 1796 is an example in this direction. He met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and in their joint venture, they published THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE in 1794. It was a verse drama. Later they both run the Pantisocracy ( a common social group, located on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States).  

HIS MARRIAGE
Edith Fricker

In 1795 he got married to his cousin Edith Fricker. Her sister Sara got married to Coleridge. In the same year he went to Portugal with his uncle who was the British Chaplain in Lisbon. From there he published his series of LETTERS like LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL in 1797. From 1797 to 1799 he published his second volume of POEMS. In these years he wrote numbers of his short poems and ballads. He also contributed columns in newspapers. He also did some TRANSLATIONS. He also edited the works of Thomas Chatterton and completed the epic THALABA THE DESTROYER IN 1801. And in 1805 MADOC. 
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