Record Number: 5393

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in the occasional sarcastic comment in pamphlets by John Dennis: when Dennis complains ... of a dream temple suspended in air, that it is 'Contrary to Nature, and to the Eternal Laws of Gravitation,' Pope grumbles, 'wch no dream ought to be.'"

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Alexander Pope

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1688

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Dennis

Title:

pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5393

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

57

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 57, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5393, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None