Evidence: | 'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't seen these poems since, since the days before the Deluge. How simple they were those great romantics!'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Théophile Gautier |
Title: | Emaux et Camées |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | first published 1852, unclear which French edition Conrad would have originally read. and which edituon he was sending to Ford. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21524 | |
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Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 403 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 8 January 1907, Montpellier. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 403, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21524, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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