Evidence: | "W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters which you have express'd when I read them many years ago.'" |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Church of England |
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: | Pliny |
Title: | Epistolarum |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1174 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Duncan Wu | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 112 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 112, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1174, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
From entry 200 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799; quote from Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, 1967. |
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