Evidence: | 'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:-
"O Solitude, romantick maid,
Whether by nodding towers you tread;
Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom,
Or hover o'er the yawning tomb;
Or climb the Andes' clifted side,
Or by the Nile's coy source abide;
Or, starting from your half-year's sleep,
From Hecla view the thawing deep;
Or, at the purple dawn of day,
Tadnor's marble waste survey";
observing, "This, Sir, is very noble".'
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 23 Sep 1777 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | Anglican |
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: | James Grainger |
Title: | 'Ode on Solitude' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | included in Robert Dodsley's 'Collection of Poems by Several Hands' |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21742 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Boswell | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 873 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Boswell (Oxford, 1980), p. 873, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21742, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791 |
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