Evidence: | Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly through a tangle of words ideas emerge.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 24 Jul 1934 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1888 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer/publishing editor |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | America |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Virginia Woolf and fellow guests at dinner-party given by Mary Hutchinson. |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Barker |
Title: | poems |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18549 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1982 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 230-231; 231 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 230-231; 231, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18549, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Source ed. notes that two volumes by Barker, Thirty Preliminary Poems, and Alanna Autumnal (prose) had been published by Eliot's firm, Faber & Faber, in 1933; see p.231 n.24. |
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