Robert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey's most influential journal pieces, providing important evidence for students of the political and literary culture of the Romantic period.

Tim Fulford is an experienced editor of Southey's poetry and prose, and also a critic and historian of the politics of Romantic writers, including Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Editorial Introduction

Volume I

I On Sir Francis Burdett's Motion for Parliamentary Reform; . . . on the Conduct of the War; . . . and on the Cry of the Whigs for Peace. 1810

II Army and Navy Reforms. 1810

III On the Economical Reformers. 1811

IV On the State of the Poor, the Principle of Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population, and the Manufacturing System. 1812

V On the State of the Poor, and the Means Pursued by the Society for Bettering their Condition. 1816

VI On the Accounts of England by Foreign Travellers. 1816

VII On the State of Public Opinion and the Political Reformers. 1816

Volume I Endnotes

Volume II

VIII A Letter to William Smith, Esq, M.P. 1817

IX On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection. 1817

X On the Means of Improving the People. 1818

XI Two Letters Concerning Lord Byron 1822-1824
Letter I. To the Editor of the Courier. 1822
Letter II. To the Editor of the Courier. 1824

XII On Emigration. 1828

XIII On the Catholic Question. 1809

XIV On the Catholic Question. 1812

XV On the Catholic Question. 1828

Volume II Endnotes

Index