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Record 20692

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he can write poison like this: "The rats are underneath the piles. The Jew is underneath the lot." ' [quotation from Glasser's friend Bill Werner]
Century: 1900-1945
Date: From: 31 Jan 1944
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:Bill Werner
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: Jewish
Country of origin: n/a
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: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Title: 'Burbank'
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20692  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ralph Glasser
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 132
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (London, 1990), p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20692, accessed: 29 March 2024

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