| Evidence: | 'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him crawled'. Yes, it was like that. Then we hit an air pocket and we seemed to be dropping alarmingly, and I forgot about Tennyson.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1910 and 1 Jan 1914 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime: school hours | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Berkhamsted specific address: Berkhamsted School |
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| Listener: | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1897 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | schoolboy |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
classmates |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Title: | 'The Eagle: A Fragment' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown School textbook - probably owned. |
| Record ID: | 26974 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Schoolboy into War | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | n/a | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh, Schoolboy into War (London, 1978), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26974, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| This is an autobiographical report (1978) of a reminiscence (1917) of a school reading experience. |
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