He then wrote many ballads, went to Spain in 1800, and on his return settled in the Lake District. The same year, he travelled to Portugal, and wrote Joan of Arc, published in 1796. In 1795 he married Edith Fricker, whose sister Sara married Coleridge. The same year, Southey, Coleridge, Robert Lovell and several others discussed creating an idealistic community (" pantisocracy") on the banks of the Susquehanna River in America. Experimenting with a writing partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, most notably in their joint composition of The Fall of Robespierre, Southey published his first collection of poems in 1794. He did, however, write a play, Wat Tyler (which, in 1817, after he became Poet Laureate, was published, to embarrass him, by his enemies). He later said of Oxford, "All I learnt was a little swimming. Southey went to Oxford with "a heart full of poetry and feeling, a head full of Rousseau and Werther, and my religious principles shaken by Gibbon". He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant, a magazine he originated, attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil), and at Balliol College, Oxford. Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London
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