Evidence: | 'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a student at Oxford, and remembers well the effect which "London" produced. Every body was delighted with it; and there being no name to it, the first buzz of the literary circles was "here is an unknown poet, greater even than Pope".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1738 and 31 Dec 1738 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Douglas |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 14 Jul 1721 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | student, later bishop |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Johnson |
Title: | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20779 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 92 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell , R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 92, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20779, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
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