Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet and historian. Southey was a Poet Laureate for 30 years, and a member of the “Lake Poets,” a group which also included William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His biographical works examined leading sixteenth and seventeenth-century British figures such as John Bunyan, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell, and Horatio Nelson. A distinguished scholar of Spanish and Portuguese language and history, he translated many books into English. He also wrote History of Brazil and History of the Peninsula War. Southey was educated at Westminster School, London, and at Balliol College, Oxford. His most enduring contribution to literature was the children’s book The Story of the Three Bears, known today as “Goldilocks.”