| Evidence: | The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868:
'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare," Stanza 55:
'"But her slender virgin waste
Made me beare her girdle spight,
Which the same day imbraste
Though it were cast off at night:
That I wisht, I dare not say,
To be girdle, night and day."'
'May I be pardoned for my curiosity in wishing to know whether these lines suggested the two last stanzas in the song in the "Miller's Daughter"?' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1868 and 30 Nov 1868 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Hull | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Charles Cockin |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Joshua Sylvester |
| Title: | 'The Woodman's Beare' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 'The Woodman's Beare' appeared 'appended to the Divine Weekes and Workes of Du Bartas.' |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 22630 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Hallam Tennyson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 60-61 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 60-61, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22630, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Source author notes that poem the work not of Du Bartas, but of Sylvester, at p.60 n.1; other bibliographical details also supplied by source author in this note. Author also reproduces, at p.61, Tennyson's letter in reply to Cockin, in which he wrote: 'I never saw the lines before: and the coincidence is strange enough, and until I saw the signature I fully believed them to be a hoax.' |
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