Evidence: | '"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who had "read and re-read it with the greatest possible pleasure" ...' |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
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Religion: | n/a |
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Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sir Edwin Arnold |
Title: | The Light of Asia |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3449 | |
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Author: | Philip Waller | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 471 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 471, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3449, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Quotation from Robert Farquharson, In and Out of Parliament: Reminiscences of a Varied Life (1911) 121-2. |
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