Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 6921

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less of the Enthusiasm of Poetry in it; less of Imagination. But are there not very fine, very solemn, very noble Strokes in almost every Page of it? Is not the Author's good Design apparent in every Line?'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 28 Feb 1755
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Samuel Richardson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 19 Aug 1689
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: printer and writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Edward Young
Title: The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6921  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Richardson
  Editor: John Carroll
  Title: Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1964
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 324
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 324, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6921, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Lady Echlin, Feb 1756

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)