| Evidence: | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845:
'When I ask my wise self what I really do remember of that Prize-poem -- the answer is -- both of Chapman's lines a-top, quite worth any prize for the quoter -- then, the good epithet of "green Europe" contrasting with Africa -- then, deep in the piece, a picture of a vestal in a vault [...] I read the poem many years ago, and never since -- tho' I have an impression that the versification is good.' |
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| Reader: | Robert Browning |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 May 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Title: | Timbuctoo |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Pamphlet |
| Publication details: | Probably as published in Prolusiones Academicae (Cambridge, 1829) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19513 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
| Vol: | 10 | |
| Page: | 264 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 264, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19513, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Tennyson won Chancellor's Gold Medal for 'Timbuctoo' whilst a student at Cambridge, in 1829. Browning took a copy of Prolusiones Academicae, a pamphlet containing Cambridge University prize poems for 1829, on visit to Barrett on 11 June 1845; see p.261 n.2 in source. Source eds. also note that lines used as Tennyson's epigraph have never been identified in any work by George Chapman; see p.265 n.2 in source, and The Poems of Tennyson (1969), ed. Christopher Ricks, p.171n. |
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