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Record Number: 9399


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once read to you, has settled the matter most judiciously, and one might almost think he had these metaphysicians [i.e. eighteenth-century aestheticians Richard Payne Knight, Dugald Stewart and Archibald Alison] in view when he makes the Soul say to the Body, '"Yet trust me, I'm willing to waive all dispute; For though certain grave doctors, by few understood, Think they flatter me much when they call you a brute, Those who wish to divide us can mean us no good."'

Century:

1700-1799, 1800-1849

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Uvedale Price

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1747

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

Mary Berry


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Fitzpatrick

Title:

[metaphysical] poem

Genre:

Poetry, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

9399

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Lady Theresa Lewis

Title:

Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1865

Vol:

2

Page:

548

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 2, p. 548, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9399, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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