Evidence: | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 5 Mar 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | George Crabbe |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 24 Dec 1754 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | clergyman and poet |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walter Scott |
Title: | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19495 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | George Crabbe | |
Editor: | Thomas Faulkner | |
Title: | Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 101 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19495, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott |
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