| Evidence: | 'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1829 and 5 Jan 1830 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen |
| Title: | Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookUnknown |
| Publication details: | Berlin, 1812 |
| Provenance: | borrowed (private library) |
| Record ID: | 28595 | |
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| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 5 | |
| Page: | 61 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 5, p. 61, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28595, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to David Aitken, dated 26th January 1830, written at Craigenputtoch, Dumfries. Pages 59-62 in this edition. Editor's notes states that although Carlyle cites Docen 7 Hagen, that he clearly means this work by von der Hagen and Johann Gustav Gottlieb Busching. |
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