Evidence: | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 30 Jun 1815 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Trowbridge | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Crabbe |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 24 Dec 1754 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | clergyman and poet |
Religion: | Christian |
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: | Walter Scott |
Title: | Lord of the Isles, The |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned gift from Scott |
Record ID: | 19507 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | George Crabbe | |
Editor: | Thomas Faulkner | |
Title: | Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 180 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19507, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott |
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