| Evidence: | 'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] "some weeks - or perhaps months - ago: but it is so deplorably dull and silly that I never thought of mentioning it before.''' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1809 and 27 May 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas De Quincey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1785 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| 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: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Title: | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 9 March 1809 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1711 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 40 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1711, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| From entry 80 (i) in Wu (1995); quotation from John E. Jordan, De Quincey to Wordsworth: A Biography of a Relationship (1962) 184-85. |
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