Evidence: | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I happened to mention Grasmere in the hearing of one of the Passengers, who asked me immediately if one Wordsworth did not live there. I answered, "Yes." - "He has written," said he, "some very beautiful Poems; The Critics do indeed cry out against them, and condemn them as over simple, but for my part I read them with great pleasure, they are natural and true." - This man was also a Grocer.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | [a grocer] Anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Grocer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | [poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1221 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 210 | |
Additional comments: | From William Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont, 8 April 1808. |
Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 (Oxford, 1969), 1, p. 210, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1221, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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