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Record 17310

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Feb 1844 and 16 Mar 1844
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: George Burges
Title: criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles
Genre: Classics, Drama, Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17310  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: 8
  Page: 259
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 259, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17310, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds unable to trace piece of 'criticism' read, though give information on Burges in p.260 n.2.

 

 

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