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Record 20140

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'etais jeune!" But then i am not Ronsard! I never, indeed, remember to have read anything of R's, except that...'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Until: 28 Aug 1918
Country: n/a
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:Ford Madox Ford
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 17 Dec 1873
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
Religion: Catholic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Pierre de Ronsard
Title: Sonnets pour Helene
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20140  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ford Madox Ford
  Editor: Sondra J. Stang
  Title: Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The
  Place of Publication: Bloomington
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 9-10
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The (Bloomington, 1993), p. 9-10, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20140, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor, Karen Cochran. The quotation is a not very accurate version of part of sonnet XXIV

 

 

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