The life of Nelson
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.
Print Book, English, ©1990
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., ©1990
collective biographies
xxi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780870213014, 0870213016
21600297
"Based on the 1830 edition published by John Murray of London"--Title page verso