| Evidence: | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 8 Dec 1929 and 31 Dec 1930 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | agnostic |
| 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: | William Webbe |
| Title: | A Discourse of English Poetrie |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Constable's English Reprint series, 1895 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18257 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | VIrginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 270 n.2 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | VIrginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 270 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18257, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Source ed.'s note accompanies diary entry for 8 December 1929, in which Woolf notes: 'I am free to begin reading Elizabethans -- the little unknown writers, whom I, so ignorant am I, have never heard of, Puttenham, Webb, Harvey. This thought fills me with joy -- no overstatement. To begin reading with a pen in my hand, discovering, pouncing, thinking of theories, when the ground is new, remains one of my great excitements' (p.270). |
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