Evidence: | 'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much before, and it fetched the auditory considerable. Reading these things that I like aloud when I am painfully excited is the keenest artistic pleasure I know: it does seem strange that these dependant arts ? singing, acting and in its small way, reading aloud ? seem the best rewarded of all arts. I am sure it is more exciting for me to read, than it was for W.W. to write: and how much more must this be so with singing!'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 16 Jul 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Swanston (according to the editors) | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Number of listeners not indicated. |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walt Whitman |
Title: | probably Leaves of Grass |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Probably 1867; see Section Three, Additional Comments |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17357 | |
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Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 31 | |
Additional comments: | From section dated Thursday [16 July 1874] of Letter 294, To Frances Sitwell.Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17357, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Claire Harman, in her Robert Louis Stevenson, London: Harper Perennial, 2006, pbk, writes on p.73: ?Stevenson had discovered Leaves of Grass soon after its publication in 1867, and kept a copy hidden..." |
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