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Record 21447

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never heard. I have searched for it in vain in a little three volume edition of Ovid which I have here, but that does not contain this poem'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1883 and 14 Nov 1883
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Alfred Tennyson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 6 Aug 1809
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ovid
Title: works
Genre: Classics, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 3 volumes
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21447  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hallam Tennyson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1897
  Vol: 1
  Page: 305 n.2
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 305 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21447, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Malan had written to Tennyson asking whether he had imitated Statius, Ovid's "Epicedion," "The Sorrow of Arcadius Etruscus," or "Spring Stanzas ot Domitian," in composition of In Memoriam; see p.305 n.2 in source.

 

 

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