Evidence: | Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that runs through most of them ... ' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1801 and 31 Dec 1801 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime: afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Town End, Grasmere | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Dorothy Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Dec 1771 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
William Wordsworth |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | [sonnets] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1775 | |
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: | 146 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 146, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1775, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Noted in entry 283 (ii) of Wu (1995). |
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