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Record 8536

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other day by some half-remembrance of a note to one of Wordsworth's poems which told with me (to speak the truth) more than the poem itself: said Wordsworth having stated ... that everything which the eyes of man could desire in a lordship was to be found at and about the Abbey aforesaid.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1815 and 31 Dec 1827
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:Alfred Tennyson
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1809
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: Poet
Religion: n/a
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: William Wordsworth
Title: The white doe of Rylstone
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1815 ? Or 1827 collection?
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8536  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Cecil Land
  Title: The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1982
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 193
  Additional comments: Eds Cecil Y Land and Edgar F Shannon Jr.

Citation: Cecil Land (ed.), The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Oxford, 1982), p. 193, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8536, accessed: 20 April 2024

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