| Evidence: | 'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translations from the Greek Anthology), but it was like a spring then, like the mountain springs we used to drink from in Persia; but now it is like a deep deep lake which can never dry up.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 18 Jan 1944 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | unknown |
| Title: | [selections from a Greek Anthology] |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20111 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Nigel Nicolson | |
| Title: | Vita and Harold | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 356 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 18 January 1944 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. Letter written from Sissinghurst. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 356, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20111, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
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