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Robert Story
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: [Bible]
[reading the Bible], Robert Story, an early nineteenth century shepherd-poet, described the experience: "The unconsumed bush burned before me - the successive plagues that visited Egypt were present in all their horror and blood - I saw the Red Sea divide...".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book
Alexander Pope :
'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from everything connected with rural life".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book
Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel
'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insisted, was "uncontrolled barbarism", poetic anarchy, "harsh, puerile and fantastic".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book
Isaac Watts : Divine Songs for Children
'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book
Ossian :
'The character of the people that Ossian describes, their manners, their habits, but above all, their superstitions, are essentially poetic.'
