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Record 16992

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842: 'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great many thanks. 'The Tragedy will be considered probably "naught" as a whole, but of considerable entity of beauty in its detached parts. It appears to [italics]me[end italics] that there are even fine dramatic touches in it although it is not a fine tragedy [...] For the rest -- there is much which is beautiful & powerful -- only you have [end italics]to dig for it[end italics] -- Do read the sonnets to the painter .. & the next palinodia sonnet -- & the one beginning "A Poet" -- & that composed on May morning 1838'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1842 and 13 Apr 1842
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:Elizabeth Barrett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 6 Mar 1806
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Evangelical
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: William Wordsworth
Title: Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy
Genre: Drama, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1842
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16992  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1987
  Vol: 5
  Page: 311-312
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 311-312, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16992, accessed: 29 March 2024

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