| Evidence: | 'Is not this verse pretty?
Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love,
For which my soul did pine --
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine.'
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 16 Nov 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Title: | To One in Paradise (1834) |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Possibly in first two vols of J.H. Ingram's edition of Poe's Works, 1874. See Section 3, Additional Comments. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18054 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 83 | |
| Additional comments: | Section headed Monday [16 November] in Letter 333, To Frances Sitwell [Saturday 14 November 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 83, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18054, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Thou wast all that [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine− A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine? Edgar Allan Poe, To One in Paradise (1834) p. 83, editors? Note 10 to Letter 333 reads: Edgar Allan Poe?s ?To One in Paradise?, reprinted in his story ?The assignation?. RLS reviewed the first two volumes of J.H. Ingram?s edition of Poe?s Works containing "The Tales" (1874) in "The Academy", 2 January 1875. |
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