| Evidence: | Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799:
'[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look for it. The "Edda" [with facing Icelandic and Latin texts] fell into his hands and delighted him. His brother [Joseph], who knows no language but English, wanted to read it, and he had begun a prose translation, when I advised him to versify it ... ' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Amos Cottle |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1768 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | poet and translator |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | Edda Soemundar hinns Froda |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | 1787 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1395 | |
| 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: | 179 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 179, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1395, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Noted in Appendix VI of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799. Quote from J.W. Robberds, ed., A Memoir of the LIfe and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich (2 vols, 1843) 1:246. |
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