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Record 3457

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, including H. W. Nevinson, [Rabindranath] Tagore was introduced and Yeats gave readings from the "Gitanjali".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 30 Jun 1912
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London, Hampstead
   
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:William Butler Yeats
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1865
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Rabindranath Tagore C. F. Andrews H. W. Nevinson
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Title: Poems from Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3457  
Source - Print  
  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: 487 n.207
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 487 n.207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3457, accessed: 26 April 2024

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