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Edward Housman
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[unknown] : [book on astronomy]
'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
John Lempriere : Bibliotheca Classica
'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dictionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
J.E Bode : Ballads from Herodotus
'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was J.E. Bode's "Ballads from Herodotus", in which the Greek stories were Victorianized in stirring Macaulayesque verse.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, The
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
