| Evidence: | 'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.' |
||||||||||
| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: Apr 1876 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: LONDON specific address: Savile Club |
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
||||||||||
| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Uncommitted |
| 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: | Andrew Lang |
| Title: | French Peasant Songs. |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | May 1876 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 22204 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 173 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 434, To his Mother, [Late April 1876], Savile Club, London. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. In the foregoing, the material in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 173, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22204, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| The Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 434 reads: “The May issue of "Cornhill" contains ‘Forest Notes’ [RLS’s essay], Stephen’s ‘Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay’, and Lang’s ‘French Peasant Songs’. Lang’s letter can be dated Thursday 27 April.” Neither the Editors’ Note nor RLS’s mention indicates what form the Lang entry took. Did the number contain some actual poems by or translated by Lang or a review of them? Lang’s "Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with other poems" had been published in London by Longmans & Co. in 1872. The meaning of “neatly enough ticked off” is not clear, but if it was Lang who found the number “most enjoyable” the drift would seem to be that Lang’s poems were satisfactorily dealt with, either as they were presented or in a review of them. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)