Evidence: | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:
'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new play at Lord Tyrconnel's, there was present a gentleman, distinguished for rank and genius, who [...] repeated those fine lines to the earl of Oxford, printed before Dr Parnell's poems [...] this gentleman had been so generously warmed, in his repeating them, that he was the most undeniable example I had ever seen of all Longinus's effect of the sublime, in its most amiable force of energy! [...] he told us, "He could never read those verses without rapture; for, that sentiments such as those were, appeared to carry more of the god in them than the man, and he was never weary of admiring them!" [goes on to relate how he identified this reader to Pope as the Speaker of the House of Commons]' |
||||||||||
Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Politician (Speaker of the House of Commons) |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | 'lines to the earl of Oxford' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In print edition of 'Dr Parnell's poems' |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28014 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 114-116 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family (London, 1804), 1, p. 114-116, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28014, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Some significance seems to attach to identity of reader where Pope concerned. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)