| Evidence: | 'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines:
"That noble Chaucer, in those former times,
That first enrich'd our English with his rhimes,
And was the first of ours that ever brake
Into the Muses' treasure, and first spake
In weighty numbr, devlving in the mine
Of perfect knowledge."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Michael Drayton |
| Title: | Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and Poesy |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1734 | |
| 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: | 77 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 77, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1734, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| From entry 142 (ii) in Wu (1995); Wu suggests Anderson, British Poets 3:548 as likely source. |
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