Evidence: | [Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs vol 2 page 223, supposing I should want to cook this up again somewhere. L.H. was our spiritual grandfather, a free man [...] These free, vigorous spirits advance the world, & when one lights on them in the strange waste of the past one says Ah you're my sort -- a great compliment.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 13 Aug 1921 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | agnostic |
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: | Leigh Hunt |
Title: | The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 3 vols, 1850 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18193 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 129-130 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 129-130, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18193, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Passages quoted by Woolf are from Chapter XVI of text ('Keats, Lamb, and Coleridge'). |
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