Lovell’s house: College Green (no longer here, College Street being re-sited). In August 1794, Coleridge and Southey met here and planned, together with Lovell, ‘The Fall of Robespierre’, a three-act play which follows the events in France after the downfall of Maximilien Robespierre, an influential figure in the French Revolution. Together, they made swift work, completing 800 lines in two days.
Later that year, Southey and Robert Lovell composed and published a volume of poems entitled Poems by Bion and Moschus. Lovell also wrote The Bristoliad, the satirical tone of which implies a scepticism of the commercial atmosphere in Bristol.
