| Evidence: | 'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my window, which is my own but the whole surrounding the house must be got ready for the reception of Ceres. My chief and most regular exercise is wood-chopping, which I do in honour of Ares.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 20 Sep 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | New Zealand | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: South Canterbury specific address: Barnswood, Hinds-mMyfield R.D other location: garden |
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| Reader: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 22 Jan 1896 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | New Zealand |
| Country of experience: | New Zealand |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Matthew Arnold |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 24693 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | |
| Editor: | Helen Shaw | |
| Title: | Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D'Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline's Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 43 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, Helen Shaw (ed.), Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D'Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline's Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield (London , 1984), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24693, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| This is an extract from a letter to Ottoline Morrell with whom D'Arcy Cresswell maintained a correspondence from 1930 until her death in April 1938. Having previously attended Ottoline Morrell's famous 'Thursdays' in which she acted as hostess to gatherings of writers, artists and philosophers, Cresswell had returned to his homeland having fallen into debt and no means available to him to remain in London. 'Barnswood' was a sheep station and the home of Cresswell's parents. Cresswell had been commissioned by an English publisher 'to make an Anthology of the best poetry since Byron'. However, 'Since Byron: An Anthology with a Thesis' ( including poems by Poe, Wells, Beddoes,Tennyson, Arnold, Rosetti, Whitman and Anonymous) was never, in the event, published. |
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