Evidence: | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Oct 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | Probably Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Probably Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Francis Quarles |
Title: | Emblems |
Genre: | Other religious, Poetry, Emblem book. |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | First published 1635. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17621 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 62 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 323, To Katharine de Mattos, [? October 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17621, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Note 1 to this Letter reads: ?Francis Quarles (1592-1644). His Emblems are short devotional poems , based on scriptural texts, followed by an epigram and illustrated by quaint engravings.? The Emblems were published in 1635. RLS may well have read them in a modern edition before as well as after he became 18. |
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