Evidence: | 'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanation of it.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 29 Nov 1928 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Novelist |
Religion: | Unknown |
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: | Herbert Read |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18165 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
Editor: | Louise DeSalvo | |
Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 312-313 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Thursday night 29 November 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 312-313, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18165, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
In a footnote the editors add that Herbert Read, 1893-1968, was a poet and critic of literature and art. |
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