The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism, Vols. I & II

by Robert Southey

Publisher:

Longman

, 1846

Overview

Methodism expanded faster than any other social movement in British North America. Beginning with John Wesley’s great grandfather Bartholomew Wesley, and ending with the earliest days of Methodism, volume 1 of Robert Southey’s The Life of John Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, presents the narrative of John Wesley’s early life. Southey describes the formative period of Wesley’s life in detail, and explains how his teachings gave birth to Methodism.

Product Details

• Title: The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism, Vols. I & II
• Author: Robert Southey
• Edition: Third Edition
• Volume: I & II
• Publisher: Longman
• Print Publication Date: 1846
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Methodism › History; Methodism
• Resource ID: LLS:STDSJHNWSLY
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:10:10Z

About Robert Southey

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.”