Quaint Dreams In Robert Southey's Grosvenor Gay

This is about the “quaint dreams' Robert Southey wrote to his friend Grosvenor Bedford in September 1797” (Speck 203). I find dreams fascinating, although I do not believe that they can really be interpreted with any real accuracy. Unlike Southey, who was very proud, Speck explains, to tell his school friends that his mother taught him how to interpret dreams. I think it is interesting to highlight the fact that Southey seemed to almost apply self-censorship to his discussion of dreams, as he does not really mention sex or eroticism. I found the nature of comparing Southey’s dreams to the study at the Santa Cruz Dreambank to be really interesting. I think Freud in general has had a lot of outlandish ideas and theories that although some have