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Record 23349

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass in some lovely valley near Cauteretz, had read aloud passages from his last and unfinished poem, the series of tales named "Mari Magno" [...] "When he read them his voice faltered at times: like every poet, he was [italics]moved by his own pathos[end italics]."'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1861 and 31 Dec 1861
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cauteretz
   
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:Arthur Hugh Clough
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1819
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Alfred Tennyson
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
Title: Mari Magno
Genre: Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 23349  
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: 2
  Page: 502
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 502, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23349, accessed: 26 April 2024

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