 The Southeys made their home at Greta Hall, Keswick, in the Lake District, living on his tiny income.Also living at Greta Hall and supported by him were Sara Coleridge and her three children (after Coleridge abandoned them) and the widow of poet Robert Lovell and her son.In 1808 Southey met Walter Savage Landor, whose work he admired, and they became close friends.