| Evidence: | Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge - Pleasure of course - of a different kind but I am quite wild about it - That profound last stanza - the infinite power and ease of all!!!" |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 01 Sep 1856 and 30 Oct 1856 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Ruskin |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 8 Feb 1819 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer and art critic |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Title: | The Burden of Nineveh |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | August 1856 issue, The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, produced by William Morris et al. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3669 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | John Ruskin | |
| Editor: | Virginia Surtees | |
| Title: | Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton. | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 189-90 | |
| Additional comments: | From the editor's footnote: "Ruskin greatly admired Byron's poetry; the quotation is from Destruction of Sennacherib. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, a monthly publication... was started by William Morris, Burne-Jones and some undergraduate friends... Ruskin, in Switzerland at the time, had missed the August issue which carried an unsigned poem by Rossetti: The Burden of Nineveh, but seeing it non his return he wrote excitedly to him: 'I am wild to know who is the Author of the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. VIII of Oxford and Cambridge. It is glorious. PLease find out for me, and see if I can get acquainted with him.' (The works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, ed. E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburnm, 39 vols, London: George Allen, Vol 36, p. 243, misdated). From a letter to Ellen Heaton (12/10/1856). |
| Citation: | John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton. (London, 1972), p. 189-90, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3669, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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