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Thomas Burke

 

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John Keats : [a minor poem]

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

Alexander Pope : 

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

William Cowper : 

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

Kirke White : 

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

Felicia Hemans : 

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

Samuel Rogers : 

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Unknown

  

 : T. P.'s Weekly

"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of T. P.'s Weekly in a tea-shop ...'"

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Serial / periodical

  

 : The Bookman

Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the next. It was my only peep-hole into ... the world where I was at home ... Its gossip, its reviews, its portraits ... its studies of the figures of English literature, and its publisher's advertisements, it was my Magic Lantern."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George Gissing : New Grub Street

Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the literary life, and its dolours, and advised me to read Gissing's "New Grub Street" (which I did) ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke      Print: Book

 

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