Evidence: | Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the subject of "Athalie"; Wordsworth saying that he did not wish to see it acted, as it would never come up to the high imagination he had formed in reading it ... ' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
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: | Jean Racine |
Title: | Athalie |
Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1377 | |
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: | 114 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1377, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Noted in entry 204 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799. Moore quotation from Lord John Russell, ed., Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, 8 vols (1853-56) 3:159. |
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