| Evidence: | 'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so certain of as the magistrate pretends to be, but shall attempt notwithstanding. It is poetry, by Joanna Baillie, about Wallace and Columbus and patient Griseld, and so forth. I am to begin forthwith; should have begun indeed already, but Schiller and others stand in the way.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 14 Mar 1821 and 3 Apr 1821 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| 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: | Joanna Baillie |
| Title: | Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1821 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 11488 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 342 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 342, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11488, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Alexander Carlyle, dated 14th March 1821, written at Edinburgh. Pages 341 - 343 in this edition. Estimated date range based on a reference Carlyle makes in a subsequent letter to Alexander Carlyle dated 11th April, in which he refers to 'The Review I finished eight days ago' (p. 352) which may refer to this work - it appears to be the only review he was working on at this time. His review appeared in the New Edinburgh Review, I (Oct. 1821), p. 393 - 414 |
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