 The term "autobiography", for example, was used by Southey in 1809 in the "Quarterly Review", in which he predicted an "epidemical rage for autobiography", which indeed has continued to the present day.The English word "zombie", from the Haitian French "zombi", is purported to have first been recorded by Southey in his 1819 essay "History of Brazil".Although originally a radical supporter of the French Revolution, Southey followed the trajectory of his fellow Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge towards conservatism.