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Record 18549

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 24 Jul 1934
Country: England
Time: evening
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Barker
Title: poems
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18549  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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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