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Record 17107

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you expressly on the Poems of Ossian; I have read another, called, The death of Cuthullin [sic]. I found, that it contained the idea you admired so much, about the darkened half of the moon, behind its growing light [...] Harriet Holmes who read it to me, thought it finer than the other [?Carric-thura]. I myself am doubtfull [sic] about it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 22 Feb 1843 and 3 Mar 1843
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Harriet Holmes
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: unknown
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Hugh Stuart Boyd, b.1781 (blind, so unable to read text himself)
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)
Title: The Death of Cuchullin
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: In The Poems of Ossian, Translated by James Macpherson
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17107  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: 6
  Page: 345
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 345, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17107, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

Boyd believed in authenticity of (forged) 'Ossian' poems.

 

 

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