Evidence: | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 21 Aug 1879 and 21 Aug 1897 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas A. Jackson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 21 Aug 1879 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | son of master craftsman, reading boy in printers |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | [probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne |
Title: | [poems complete works] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Campbell's British Poets series, probably secondhand |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11468 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | T.A. Jackson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1953 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 24 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | T.A. Jackson, Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda (London, 1953), p. 24, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11468, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
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