Evidence: | Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva voce ...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1816 and 31 Dec 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Coligny | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Matthew Gregory Lewis |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 9 Jul 1775 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Switzerland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | Faust |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2443 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron | |
Editor: | Leslie A. Marchand | |
Title: | Byron's Letters and Journals | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1977 | |
Vol: | 7 | |
Page: | 113 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | George Gordon Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals (London, 1977), 7, p. 113, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2443, accessed: 07 June 2023 |
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