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Record 19483

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet, earnest & heart-sound [...] of an imagination not imperiously creative, .. but bright & alive in its sphere & place.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1844 and 14 Jun 1845
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: Ebenezer Elliott
Title: poems
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19483  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1992
  Vol: 10
  Page: 263
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 263, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19483, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Elliott's Poetical Works published in 3 vols, 1844 (source eds. conjecture this the text seen by Mitford; see p.264 n.2.

 

 

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