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Record Number: 18748


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides being evidently the words of a [italics] hurt person [end italics]) a very shabby article'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 4 Jun 1814

Country:

Scotland

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:

James Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

Nov 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (agricultural)

Occupation:

shepherd and author

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

[review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814']

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Edinburgh Review 22, January 1814

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18748

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2004

Vol:

I

Page:

182

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 182, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18748, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter from Hogg to Southey

   
   
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