| Evidence: | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undemined his confidence in the status quo: "I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'.. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1914 and 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: in the WWI trenches | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | V.W. Garratt |
| Age | n/a |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | factory worker |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) |
| Title: | The Golden Treasury |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 1040 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 43 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1040, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| See V.W. Garrat, 'A Man in the Street' (London, 1939) |
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