Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843:
'[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon Grace Darling when it first
appeared: and with a curious mixture of feelings [...] I yet read it with so much pain from the
nature of the subject, that my judgement was scarcely free to consider the poetry [...]
'[italics]But[end italics] ... I do confess to you my dear friend, that I suspect, .. through the
mist of my sensations, .. the poem in question to be very inferior to his former poems'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 12 Jul 1840 and 18 May 1843 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Evangelical |
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: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | Grace Darling |
Genre: | Poetry, Biography |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17176 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
Vol: | 7 | |
Page: | 135-136 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 135-136, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17176, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Barret would have been caused pain by this reading due to associations with her brother Edward's death at sea in the summer of 1840. |
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