The Life of Nelson 2 Volume Set Mixed media product
by Robert Southey
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History series
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Robert Southey (1774–1843), Romantic poet and friend of Coleridge, was Poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843.
He also wrote historical works and was a noted scholar of Portuguese. (His three-volume history of Brazil is also reissued in this series.) As Southey himself states, many lives of Nelson had been written since the hero's death at Trafalgar in 1805, but what he is attempting in these two volumes, published in 1813, is a work 'clear and concise enough to become a manual for the young sailor … till he has treasured up the example in his memory and in his heart'.
In this 'eulogy', Volume 1 describes Nelson's boyhood and early experience of the sea, his service on both sides of the Atlantic, and his role in the Napoleonic Wars up to the battle of the Nile.
Volume 2 continues the story until Nelson's death in the hour of victory.
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- Pages:556 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/07/2015
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- ISBN:9781108083799
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:556 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/07/2015
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- ISBN:9781108083799
