Robert Southey 
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson 

This is the history of life, love, and victories of Admiral Nelson, an iconic figure in the Napoleonic era. He is most known for a range of successful marine campaigns. Yet this book gives a deep insight into the hero’s personal life, relations with Lady Hamilton, the courts of Naples, and Britain. Besides the complete account of political campaigns, a reader can have an insight into the personal letters and diary abstracts of Admiral Nelson, which gives a unique chance to learn the personality of Nelson closer. Finally, the story ends up in the last moments of Nelson’s life, his victory at the battle of Trafalgar, and the farewell of the British people.

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Robert Southey (1774 – 1843) was a British poet, historian, biographer, and essayist, also known as a poet of the Romantic school and Poet laureate, a position he took after Byron refused the proposal. He was a close friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was acquainted with other iconic figures of British literature, like William Wordsworth, Walter Savage Landor, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë. Although we know Southey primarily as a poet today, he was a renowned translator and scholar with a profound interest in history. His historical works include the History of the Peninsular War, the History of Brazil, and biographies of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell, and Horatio Nelson. His work about Nelson was adapted to the 1926 British film ‘Nelson.’