Evidence: | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy. You don?t know where to put it. Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested. And yet a poet wrote it. When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus. Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 19 Aug 1831 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Ledbury specific address: Hope End |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Poet |
Religion: | Evangelical Anglican |
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: | John Keats |
Title: | Endymion |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 891 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Barrett | |
Editor: | Elizabeth Berridge | |
Title: | The Barretts at Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 142 | |
Additional comments: | Diary entry for 19 August 1831 |
Citation: | Elizabeth Barrett, Elizabeth Berridge (ed.), The Barretts at Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (London, 1974), p. 142, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=891, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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