Evidence: | 'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christmas exercise. He performed it with uncommon rapidity, and in so masterly a manner, that he obtained great applause from it, which ever after kept him high in the estimation of his College and, indeed, of all the University'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 5 Nov 1728 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford specific address: Pembroke College |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later 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 |
Author: | Alexander Pope |
Title: | Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20713 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R. W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 46 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R. W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 46, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20713, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
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