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Record 20695

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim volume of poems on thick hand-made paper - "Eyes of Adonis". Some of the poems were little more than doggerel, and he was hurt to find that he could not even [italics] give [end italics] the little books away'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: From: 1 Oct 1939
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Oxford
   
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:Ralph Glasser
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Apr 1916
Socio-economic group: Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation: later economist
Religion: Jewish
Country of origin: England of Lithuanian heritage
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Tom
Title: Eyes of Adonis
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20695  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ralph Glasser
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 166
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (London, 1990), p. 166, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20695, accessed: 29 March 2024

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