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Record 19529

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 November 1845: 'Since I wrote what is above, I have been reading [...] that sonnet -- "Past and Future" -- which affects me more than any poem I ever read [...] is not that sonnet to be loved as a true utterance of yours?'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 16 Nov 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:Robert Browning
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7 May 1812
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
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: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Title: 'Past and Future'
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: in Barrett's Poems, 1844
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19529  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: 11
  Page: 174
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1993), 11, p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19529, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Opening line of poem quoted in Barrett's Sonnets from the Portugese, XLII; see p.175 n.7 in source.

 

 

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