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Record 27462

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall', in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1659), pp. 1-9.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1710 and 31 Dec 1710
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Edward Pordage
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Fellow of King's College. Cambridge
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Dryden
Title: 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall'
Genre: Poetry, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: In Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1659), pp. 1-9
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27462  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Edward Pordage
  Title: Reading Notes
  Location: King's College, Cambridge
  Call no: MS 840.5
  Page/folio: 15-17

Citation: Edward Pordage, Reading Notes King's College, Cambridge, p. MS 840.5, p. 15-17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27462, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Page images from MS accessed at Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, where they appear by permission of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. Scriptorium eds. note that p. 17 in the manuscript is wrongly paginated as p. 117.

 

 

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