Robert Southey’s second volume of poems gathers The Vision of the Maid of Orléans, adapted from his Joan of Arc, alongside protest pieces like The Complaints of the Poor and a ballad about a sailor tormented by his part in the slave trade. Comic and macabre ballads and a set of English eclogues complete the book.
Early Romantic verse by the future Poet Laureate, written in the years of his friendship with Coleridge. Download the free EPUB.