Evidence: | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his delight in reading them, that he determined on writing himself a poem in six cantos which he called the "Battle of Cheviot?'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 25 Oct 1800 and Sep 1808 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Clapham | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Historian / critic |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walter Scott |
Title: | Marmion |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5529 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1971 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 28 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Macaulay?s mother, dated September 1808 |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1971), p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5529, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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