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Record 21474

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Sep 1854 and 31 Dec 1854
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Isle of Wight
specific address: Farringford House
   
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Emily Tennyson
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Homer
Title: 'description of Hades'
Genre: Classics, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: In the Odyssey; read in reader's own (oral) translation
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21474  
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: 379
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21474, accessed: 29 March 2024

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