| Evidence: | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequent to those which Tressan has abridged & prior to Amadis of Greece: you know my great attachment to the old romances. I know the Portugueze Palmerin. it has fine parts but deserves not the praise of Cervantes.'
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 12 Sep 1797 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
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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 and lawyer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | anon |
| Title: | Palmerin of England |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 25198 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 256. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 29 April 2009. , |
| Citation: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 256. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 29 April 2009. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25198, accessed: 05 June 2023 |
| Source eds note: "Southey mistakenly believed that the romance Palmerin of England had Portuguese origins and argued this case in his own translation, which appeared in 1807. In the sixth chapter of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Don Quixote (1605–1615), the curate declares: ‘let this Palm of England be cared for and preserved, as a thing singular in its kind, and let a casket be made for it, like that which Alexander found among the spoils of Darius, and destined to keep in it the work of Homer’." |
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