| Evidence: | 'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sustain. He paints too gorgeously and indistinctly, he also whines too much, he is sometimes even liable to cant. I am astonished at your diffidence in judging him: it were well if he always found even critics by profession so well qualified.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry Hart Milman |
| Title: | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1818 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 16553 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 189 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 189, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16553, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Jane Baillie Welsh, dated 28 October 1822, written at 3 Moray Street. Pages 183 - 190 in this edition. See TC's letter to JBW dated 9th August 1822 in which he sends her the Milman to read - but does not specify whether he has already read it himself at this point. See also JBW's letter to TC c.24th October 1822 in which she gives her opinion of the work. |
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