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Record 19732

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees nothing - the "grief without a pang".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 15 Nov 1936
Country: England
Time: night
Place: city: London
   
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:George Barker
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 26 Feb 1913
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: poet
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Antonia White
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Title: Dejection: An Ode
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19732  
Source - Print  
  Author: Antonia White
  Editor: Susan Chitty
  Title: Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1991
  Vol: I
  Page: 80
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19732, accessed: 20 April 2024

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