Evidence: | 'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Scarcely since I first came across Rossetti have I received so new, so fresh, so powerful an impression from any work or style of verse. I have added a new string to my bow".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1884 and 5 Aug 1884 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Arthur Symons |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 28 Feb 1865 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | preacher's son, later poet |
Religion: | Wesleyan, later none |
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: | Theophile Gautier |
Title: | Emaux et Camees |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 12189 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Karl Beckson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Arthur Symons. A Life | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 21 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons. A Life (Oxford, 1987), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12189, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Quotation taken from a 5th August 1884 letter to Osborne held at Princeton |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)