Book cover for THE Life of Nelson

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Southey's biography of Britain's most famous naval hero has gained historical and literary importance since its publication in 1830. A peer of Coleridge, Byron and Wordsworth, his biography of Nelson influenced such writers as Herman Melville, Alfred Thayer Mahan and James Fenimore Cooper.
  • ISBN10 1408631458
  • ISBN13 9781408631454
  • Publish Date 26 October 2007 (first published 22 January 1970)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Read Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 348
  • Language English