| Evidence: | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of Dryden [sic]
'Reading these Epistles which have no connection with my work and little with my ideas, have given me a happy sense of my own leisure. Who has the necessary time and vacancy of mind to read Dryden's Epistles for pleasure in 1927? or to copy out extracts from them into a Commonplace Book? Or to write out more often than is necessary the words: Dryden, Epistles, Dryden's Epistles? No one but me and perhaps Siegfried Sassoon.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1927 and 30 Sep 1927 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | night | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Dryden |
| Title: | Epistles |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20828 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | E. M. Forster | |
| Editor: | Philip Gardner | |
| Title: | Commonplace Book | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 27 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book (London, 1985), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20828, accessed: 05 June 2023 | |
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