| Evidence: | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shelley, and Tennyson "swamped the trivialities of life and gave my ego a fulness and strength in the lustre of which noble conceptions were born and flourished'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | night: evening class | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Birmingham | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | V.W. Garratt |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | factory worker |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | reading group |
| Record ID: | 1035 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 43 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1035, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| See V.W. Garrat, 'A Man in the Street' (London, 1939) |
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