Southey had a complicated relationship with the Gothic ballad craze. He wrote a number, of varying degrees of seriousness, but in "Rudiger" we can see him adapting folk tales and older poems while "smoothing" the meter in his characteristic way. Like a number of poems I'll post this month, it was included in Matthew Gregory Lewis's Tales of Wonder.
The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
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