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Record Number: 5723


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, [Coleridge] says, '(Your short critique of which pencilled at the end of the IInd. Vol contains my full judgement & convictions thereon).'"

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

1818

Country:

n/a

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:

Joseph Henry Green

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Novalis

Title:

Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2)

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

5723

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

279 n.9

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 279 n.9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5723, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956-71; 4:870.

   
   
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