Evidence: | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?'
Later, 'I think that the rhetoric and vigorous advance of Young's verse were pleasant to me.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1861 and 31 Aug 1861 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Devon location in dwelling: garden of family home , in Devon |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edmund Gosse |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1849 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | son of zoological writer |
Religion: | Plymouth Brethren |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Dr. Edward Young |
Title: | The Last Day |
Genre: | Other religious, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11250 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edmund Gosse | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Father and Son: a study of two temperments | |
Place of Publication: | Keele: Ryburn Publishing | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 164-166 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 164-166, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11250, accessed: 09 December 2023 |
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