Arab Scholars

young boys from the Middle East learning by drawing in the dirt.

Like "The Hindoo Woman and her Babe," this illustration and its accompanying text serve to valorize British society by favorably comparing it to a non-Christian, foreign culture. In the text accompanying this particular image, the methods of education in Arab culture are described not simply as inadequate, but also as unkind and unenlightened in its exclusion of girls.

Introduction, Part Six: 1819–1821

Part Six collects together, in one place, for the first time, the surviving letters written by Robert Southey between 1819 and 1821. It follows the editorial conventions described in About this Edition and presents newly transcribed, fully annotated texts of 546 letters written by Southey in this three year period; 314 letters are published here for the first time and an additional 76 are published here in full for the first time.

Introduction, Part Five: 1816–1818

Part Five collects, in one place for the first time, the surviving letters written by Robert Southey between 1816 and 1818. It follows the editorial conventions described in About this Edition and contains newly transcribed, fully annotated texts of 537 letters drawn from archives in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America. Of these, 341 are published for the first time, with a further 51 published here in full for the first time.

Appendix 1

Appendix 1

 

This appendix deals with two letters by Southey where the surviving manuscript is less complete than the version published by previous editors. In both cases, a transcript of the manuscript is in the main text of this edition.

 

General Introduction

About this Edition

Editorial Methodology

The Collected Letters of Robert Southey is divided into eight Parts: I: 1791-1797, II:1798-1803, III:1804-09, IV:1810-15,
V:1816-21, VI:1822-27, VII:1828-33, VIII:1833-39.

The General Introduction outlines the project’s research context. In addition, each
individual Part has a brief introductory essay.

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