Evidence: | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 29 Oct 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Trowbridge | ||||||||||
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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: | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | Faust |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned bought in Bath |
Record ID: | 19584 | |
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: | 305-6 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 305-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19584, accessed: 05 December 2023 |
Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter to George Crabbe, Jr. |
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