In Robert Southey , Andrews argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue, Southey was absolutely consistent in all his work and the Poet Laureate's partisan rhetoric reveals much about the religious culture of this stormy period in England.

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STUART ANDREWS Librarian of the Wells & Mendip Museum, UK**.**

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The Shadow of 1798: Rebellion and Union Poet as Traveller: Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin Poet as Journalist: Weeklies, Monthlies, Quarterlies Jacobins and Jesuits: Wat Tyler and Other Ghosts End of Controversy? Monks, Friars, Methodists Laureate Historian: Southey and 'Smooth Butler' 'Rome's Brazen Serpent': Milner as Merlin Supporting Batteries: Southey Defended Eve of Emancipation: The Quarterly on Ireland After the Act: Southey and Anglican Englishness