Evidence: | 'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my "John Clare"! He has the book yet for all I know [...]. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between May 1916 and Jun 1916 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Hinges, near Béthune county: Nord other location: farmhouse |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edmund Blunden |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1 Nov 1896 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Army Officer and Poet |
Religion: | Christian (Anglican) |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | unknown unknown |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | unknown |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 29858 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edmund Blunden | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Undertones of War | |
Place of Publication: | Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.) | |
Date of Publication: | 1982 (1928, 1937) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 40 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29858, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
It is not known what Blunden read on this occasion but it can be assumed that it was not John Clare's poems, which he may have read periodically up until that point in time. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)