| Evidence: | "W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil alludes to in the expression 'Castella in tumulis.'" |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1789 and 1792 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Gentleman's Magazine |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | vol 59 (1789) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1006 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 62 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1006, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 112 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, which continues: "W[ordsworth] refers to a dispute over the word 'castella' as used by Virgil (Georgics iii 475) conducted in the Gentleman's Magazine from April to Dec. 1789 between two correspondents, 'THW ' and 'BLA'." |
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