| Evidence: | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penny Poets" and bought "As You Like It", "The Earthly Paradise", and a selection of Matthew Arnold's poems. ...I did not get much out of the selection of Arnold's poems... "As You Like It" delighted me, but it was "The Earthly Paradise" that I read over and over again.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Garth | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edwin Muir |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 15 May 1887 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | farmer's son, later poet |
| Religion: | Protestant |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | As You Like It |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | penny edition |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 11350 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Edwin Muir | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The story and the fable: An autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 88-89 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography (London, 1940), p. 88-89, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11350, accessed: 28 March 2023 | |
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