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Record 18866

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Sep 1820 and 7 Oct 1820
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Altrive
   
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:James Hogg
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth Nov 1770
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: farmer / author
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Title: 'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Uses of Literary Praise'
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Sept 1820
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18866  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Hogg
  Editor: Gillian Hughes
  Title: Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
  Place of Publication: Edinburgh
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: II
  Page: 46-7
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 46-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18866, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to William Blackwood.

 

 

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