The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part 1: 1791-97

罗伯特苏塞（1774-1843）是一位诗人、散文家、历史学家、传记作家、翻译家和辩论家。他也是浪漫主义时期最具争议的作家之一。他是一位高调、多产和实验性的作家，在18世纪末和19世纪初的英国文学文化中发挥了重要作用。他是塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治（Samuel Taylor Coleridge）的姐夫，也是威廉·华兹华斯（William Wordsworth）的助手，他与英国文学史上一个关键时期的许多主要作家都非常熟悉，这一时期英国受到国外战争和国内政治，社会和工业变革的困扰。虽然苏塞是一位多产的记者--给他那个时代的大多数主要人物都写过信--但他那些信息丰富、好辩、八卦、揭露真相、可读性极强的信件从未全文发表过。事实上，他幸存下来的许多信件从未出版过。我的研究项目-“罗伯特苏塞书信集”。第1部分：1791-97' -是一个新的八部分收集这些信件的版本的第一部分。它将由国际同行评审的电子版专家“浪漫圈”出版，并将以电子形式和通过一个免费访问的网站提供苏塞在1791年至1797年期间写的幸存信件，这段时间见证了他从不满的小学生诗人到被认为是当时领先的激进实验诗人的成年人。通过提供苏塞在其职业生涯之初所写的信件的新编辑和简洁注释的文本，这项研究将改变目前对他发展的这一关键阶段的理解，包括他与同时代的柯勒律治和华兹华斯的关系。它将促进早期浪漫主义文化的知识和文学与1790年代激进政治之间的联系的意识。它将极大地促进未来学者的工作，并对更多对十八世纪末和世纪初英国文化感兴趣的普通读者有用。

Robert Southey (1774-1843) was a poet, essayist, historian, biographer, translator and polemicist. He was also one of the most controversial of all Romantic period writers. A high-profile, prolific and experimental author, he was centrally involved in literary culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The brother-in-law of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the associate of William Wordsworth, he was closely acquainted with many of the leading writers of a key period in British literary history, a period that saw Britain beset by war abroad and political, social and industrial change at home. Although Southey was a prolific correspondent - writing to most of the major figures of his day - his informative, polemical, gossipy, revealing and eminently readable letters have never been published in full. Indeed, many of his surviving letters have never been published at all. My research project - 'The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part 1: 1791-97' - is the first part of a new eight part collected edition of these letters. It will be published by the international peer-reviewed electronic edition specialists 'Romantic Circles' and will make available in electronic form and via a free-access web-site the surviving letters Southey wrote in the years 1791 to 1797, a time which saw him go from disaffected schoolboy versifier to an adult identified as the leading radical, experimental poet of the day. By providing freshly edited and succinctly annotated texts of the letters Southey produced at the very beginning of his career, this research will transform current understanding of this key stage of his development, including his relationships with his direct contemporaries Coleridge and Wordsworth. It will advance knowledge of the culture of early Romanticism and awareness of the links between literature and radical politics in the 1790s. It will massively facilitate the work of future scholars and be of use to more general readers interested in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British culture.