Evidence: | Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fatal sisters),; v.3 p. 59 (On a distant prospect of Eton college). Eg. p.73 'I always delight in Gray?s Ode to Adversity; read it once again and compare its ennobling tenors with my ideas.'; p. 91 'I feel the spark of fancy kindling at the torch of memory; but as Gray says of Jove?s eagle, "the thunder of whose beak, and lightening of whose eye were to be quenched? &c &c I too will quench my mental light in ?dark clouds of slumber"'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1755 and 31 Dec 1797 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1755 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | Wife/widow of Church of Scotland minister then author |
Religion: | Church of Scotland |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Gray |
Title: | [Poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 13905 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Anne Grant | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1807 | |
Vol: | 1, 2,3, | |
Page: | Various | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 (London, 1807), 1, 2,3,, p. Various, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13905, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Date range given as birth to date of letter. Some titles from external sources |
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