Evidence: | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read in this manner. it is very seldom that I am without a book in my pocket. & the half & quarters of hours wasted so often in waiting amount to a great deal in the year. ten to one but I read all the way to Bath & should the sun shine it makes glad the heart of man spout vociferously to the edification of all the stage coachmen. this however only happens in abstraction.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 30 Dec 1793 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Southey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 12 Aug 1774 |
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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mark Akenside |
Title: | Pleasures of the Imagination |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 24381 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 78. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 24 April 2009. , |
Citation: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 78. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 24 April 2009. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24381, accessed: 03 June 2023 |
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