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Record 25584

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 5 Jun 1909
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Forehead
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Galsworthy
Title: unspecified poem
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: English Review, June 1909
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 25584  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: 4
  Page: 239
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 5 June 1909, Aldington.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 239, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25584, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

See fn.2, p.239 of source text. There are, up until 1909, very few documented experiences of Conrad reading poetry.

 

 

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