Evidence: | Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and very beautiful. Cayley is sometimes closer to the original." |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 Alighieri |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Translations by H.F. Cary and C.B. Cayley |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3670 | |
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: | 180 | |
Additional comments: | From the editor's footnote: "The Rev. H.F. Cary (1772-1844) and C.B. Cayley (1823-83) were both translators of Dante." From a letter to Ellen Heaton (23/12/1855). |
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. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3670, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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