| Evidence: | "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.'
"W[ordsworth's first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 10 Jul 1804 and 30 Jul 1804 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | n/a |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Title: | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Ed. Edmond Malone; 3 vols, 3rd edn, 1801 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 1849 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 175-76 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (1995), p. 175-76, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1849, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| quotation from Ernest De Selincourt, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787-1805 (1967) 490-01. |
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