| Evidence: | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list]
'Symposium of Plato
Plays of Aeschlyus
Plays of Sophocles
Illiad of Homer
Arrian's Historia Indicae
Homer's Hymns [the above texts are bracketed to show they were all read in Greek]
Histoire de la Revolution Francaise
Apuleius Metamorphoses - Latin
Coleridges Biographica Literaria
Political Justice
Rights of Man
Elphinstone's Embassy to Caubul
Severals [sic] vols of Gibbon' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1817 and 31 Dec 1817 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Aug 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Plato |
| Title: | Symposium |
| Genre: | Classics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 14329 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Paula R. Feldman | |
| Title: | The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 102 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 102, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14329, accessed: 28 November 2023 | |
| Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert. |
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