Evidence: | 'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1860 and 1 Jan 1880 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Oscar Wilde |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 16 Oct 1854 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Keats |
Title: | Sonnet in Blue |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 26265 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Oscar Wilde | |
Editor: | Merlin and Rupert Hart Davis | |
Title: | The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 157 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Oscar Wilde, Merlin and Rupert Hart Davis (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (London, 2000), p. 157, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26265, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Wilde owned the manuscript of Keats's "Sonnet in Blue". It was displayed in the drawing-room of his house in Tite Street, London. See Thomas Wright, "Oscar's Books" (London, 2008), p.35. |
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