13. Southey wrote a great deal of verse, but much more prose. His prose works amount to more than one hundred volumes; but his poetry, such as it is, will probably live longer than his prose. His best-known poems are +Joan of Arc+, written when he was nineteen; +Thalaba the Destroyer+, a poem in irregular and unrhymed verse; +The Curse of Kehama+, in verse rhymed, but irregular; and +Roderick, the last of the Goths+, written in blank verse. He will, however, always be best remembered by his shorter pieces, such as +The Holly Tree+, +Stanzas written in My Library+, and others. --His most famous prose work is the +Life of Nelson+. His prose style is always firm, clear, compact, and sensible. 14. THOMAS CAMPBELL (+1777-1844+), a noble poet and brilliant reviewer, was born in Glasgow in the year 1777. He was educated at the High School and the University of Glasgow. At the age of twenty-two, he published his +Pleasures of Hope+, which at once gave him a place high among the poets of the day. In 1803 he removed to London, and followed literature as his profession; and, in 1806, he received a pension of £200 a-year from the Government, which enabled him to devote the whole of his time to his favourite study of poetry. His best long poem is the +Gertrude of Wyoming+, a tale written in the Spenserian stanza, which he handles with great ease and power. But he is best known, and will be longest remembered, for his short lyrics-- which glow with passionate and fiery eloquence-- such as +The Battle of the Baltic+, +Ye Mariners of England+, +Hohenlinden+, and others. He was twice Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. He died at Boulogne in 1844, and was buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. 15. THOMAS MOORE (+1779-1852+), poet, biographer, and historian-- but most of all poet-- was born in Dublin in the year 1779. He began to print verses at the age of thirteen, and may be said, like Pope, to have “lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.” He came to London in 1799, and was quickly received into fashionable society. In 1803 he was made Admiralty Registrar at Bermuda; but he soon gave up the post, leaving a deputy in his place, who, some years after, embezzled the Government funds, and brought financial ruin upon Moore. The poet’s friends offered to help him out of his money difficulties; but he most honourably declined all such help, and, like Sir W. Scott, resolved to clear off all claims against him by the aid of his pen alone. For the next twenty years of his life he laboured incessantly; and volumes of poetry, history, and biography came steadily from his pen. His best poems are his +Irish Melodies+, some fifteen or sixteen of which are perfect and imperishable; and it is as a writer of songs that Moore will live in the literature of this country. He boasted, and with truth, that it was he who awakened for this century the long-silent harp of his native land--