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Record Number: 29495


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the opportunity of borrowing the Work. The extracts from it in the Monthly Review, and the short passages in your Watchman seem to me much superior to any thing in his partnership account with Lovell.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Country:

UK, England

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:

Charles Lamb

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

10 Feb 1775

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer.

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

UK, England

Country of Experience:

UK, England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Southey

Title:

[extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"]

Genre:

Poetry, Extracts of book, published in periodical.

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.

Publication Details

1796

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

29495

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Lamb

Editor:

Edward Lucas

Title:

The Letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1935

Vol:

1

Page:

1

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Charles Lamb, Edward Lucas (ed.), The Letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb (London, 1935), 1, p. 1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=29495, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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