Evidence: | 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordsworth] added that "Wilson's poems are an attenuation of mine ... "... his letter to M[ary] W[ordsworth] of 23 May ... mentions one of Wilson's poems; "which we had in Mss., to the sleeping Child and which is but an Attenuation of my ode to the Highland Girl."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1809 and 31 Dec 1812 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
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 |
Author: | John Wilson |
Title: | [MS poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1876 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Duncan Wu | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 244 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1876, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Noted in entry 430 (ii) of Wu (1995); quotations from Edith J. Morley, Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Writers (3 vols, 1938) 1: 82, and Alan G. Hill, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth VIII: A Supplement of New Letters (1993) 91. |
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