| Evidence: | Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that runs through most of them ... ' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1801 and 31 Dec 1801 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime: afternoon | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Town End, Grasmere | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Dec 1771 |
| 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) |
William Wordsworth |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Milton |
| Title: | [sonnets] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1775 | |
| 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: | 146 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 146, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1775, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 283 (ii) of Wu (1995). |
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