406 A World in Turmoil - 1967-1971 (with Beverly Gologorsky)
The History of Literature
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Robert Southey, Unread Poems
Robert southey was a contemporary of the great poets samuel taylor, coleridge and william wordsworth. He made a career out of hack work, becoming poet laureate and producing nothing worth while. His poems are now selling for a a pound and a few pa if that. While charlotte's just sold for a cool one point two, five million bucks. And all they get puns, but come on, robert southey, what a thing to say poetry is cannot be the business of a woman's life, you jerk.
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