Record Number: 8539

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Frank Lushington had and which I ever since intended to get.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1844 and 31 Dec 1844

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cheltenham

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Alfred Tennyson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1809

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

F W Schneidewin

Title:

Delectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, melicae

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1838

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8539

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Cecil Land

Title:

The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1982

Vol:

n/a

Page:

264

Additional Comments:

Eds Cecil Y Land and Edgar F Shannon Jr.

Citation:

Cecil Land (ed.), The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Oxford, 1982), p. 264, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8539, accessed: 23 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Evidence recorded in November 1846, actual experience in 1844.