Record Number: 22313
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you patted Pater on the back and promised him some cake if he kept a good little boy till the holidays.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Jun 1876
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:‘A Greek Hymn’.
Genre:Classics, Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Translation and commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn the June 1876 issue of the "Cornhill Magazine".
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:22313
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:174
Additional Comments:
Letter 435, To Sidney Colvin, [Early June 1876], Swanston. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing material in square brackets has been added by the editors
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22313, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
On p. 174, the Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 435 reads: “In the June "Cornhill", under the title ‘A Greek Hymn’, Colvin published a translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. In his commentary he praised the ‘accustomed charm of thought and style’ of Pater’s article ‘The Myth of Demeter and Persephone’ in the January and February issues of the "Fortnightly".
