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Record 14156

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for grammatical analysis, appears to my prejudiced mind to be a kind of intellectual vivisection. The life is destroyed in the act of discovering and distinguishing the elements of which its body os composed. A young friend of mine said to me that she had 'done' the story of Margaret, in the Excursion, with notes, for a correspondence class [...] All that she had retained from this 'doing' was, as far as I can gather, nothing but the fact that she had 'done' it. Feeling, admiration, there was none. The poetry had been a lesson to be "got through."'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
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:anon
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: child
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: a "young friend" of Elizabeth Sewell

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Wordsworth
Title: The Excursion (excerpts)
Genre: Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14156  
Source - Print  
  Author: Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  Editor: n/a
  Title: 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century)
  Place of Publication: n/a
  Date of Publication: 1888
  Vol: 23
  Page: 218
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) (1888), 23, p. 218, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14156, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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