| Evidence: | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842:
'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaulay's Lays of Rome -- a kind of
revenge on that literature which so long plagued ours with Muses, and Apollo, and Luna and all
that, -- by taking the stalest subjects in it, and as plentifully bestowing on them the
commonplaces of our indigenous ballad-verse -- "Then out spake brave Sir Cocles" -- "Go,
hark ye, stout Sir Consul" -- and a deal more: I have only seen extracts, but they gave me
this notion.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1842 and 13 Dec 1842 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Browning |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 May 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| Title: | Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts) |
| Genre: | Classics, History, Poetry, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | [?] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, December 1842, in which extracts appeared. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17082 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | 6 | |
| Page: | 221 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 221, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17082, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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