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Record Number: 20572


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very much.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jul 1918 and 23 Aug 1918

Country:

Egypt

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Alexandria

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:

Edward Morgan Forster

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1879

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer/Red Cross worker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Egypt

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Trevelyan

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Poetry, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20572

Source:

Print

Author:

E. M. Forster

Editor:

Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank

Title:

Selected Letters of E. M. Forster

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

1

Page:

295

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (London, 1983), 1, p. 295, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20572, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Source eds. note that poem not in Trevelyan's Collected Works; see p.296 n.3.

   
   
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