Evidence: | '[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw the said critique, which had just appeared. He read it through, and remarked that 'though Byron's verses were probably poor enough, such an attack was abominable ... "' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1808 and 31 Dec 1808 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Henry Brougham |
Title: | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | In Edinburgh Review, January 1808 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1701 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Duncan Wu | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 29 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 29, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1701, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
From entry 57 in Wu (1995); quotation from The Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers (1856) 234-35. |
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