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Record 12189

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Scarcely since I first came across Rossetti have I received so new, so fresh, so powerful an impression from any work or style of verse. I have added a new string to my bow".'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1884 and 5 Aug 1884
Country: England
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:Arthur Symons
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Feb 1865
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: preacher's son, later poet
Religion: Wesleyan, later none
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Theophile Gautier
Title: Emaux et Camees
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12189  
Source - Print  
  Author: Karl Beckson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Arthur Symons. A Life
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1987
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 21
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons. A Life (Oxford, 1987), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12189, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation taken from a 5th August 1884 letter to Osborne held at Princeton

 

 

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