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Record 1854

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to Roscoe," he told Henry Herbert Southey, "whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal."'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1806 and 11 Jan 1806
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Robert Southey
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 12 Aug 1774
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)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Roscoe
Title: The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth
Genre: History, Biography, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 4 vols; Liverpool, 1805
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1854  
Source - Print  
  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: 180-81
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (1995), p. 180-81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1854, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

quotation from Kenenth Curry, ed., New Letters of Roberrt Southey (2 vols, 1965) 1: 415.

 

 

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