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Record Number: 6015


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age twenty-one'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1900

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

later a writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

William Wordsworth

Title:

Prelude, The

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Penny Poets edition

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

6015

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

452

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 452, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6015, accessed: 18 March 2024


Additional Comments:

See V.S. Pritchett, 'A Cab at the Door' (1968), page ref. unclear

   
   
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