| Evidence: | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. 2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.
7. We then listened to a number of extracts from books read during the summer. 8. F. E. Pollard followed with an analysis of Dante and his philosophy from H. A. L. Fisher’s History of Europe. There was a rather arresting comparison between the journeyings of Christian in the Pilgrim’s Progress + Dante’s Voyage of the Soul. Dante was portrayed as an aristocratic mystic and statesman, and the Roman Catholic Church appeared rather unexpectedly as a great mystical democracy owing to the melancholy relegation of several Pope to Hell. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 13 Sep 1935 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: School House, Leighton Park School |
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| Reader: | Francis E. Pollard |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1872 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Formerly schoolmaster, now occasional lecturer and supply teacher, and supported also by wife's unearned income |
| Religion: | Quaker or associated with the Friends |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Members of the XII Book Club |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | H. A. L. Fisher |
| Title: | History of Europe |
| Genre: | Other religious, History, Poetry, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First edition (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935) |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 29878 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Victor Alexander | |
| Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) | |
| Location: | private collection | |
| Call no: | n/a | |
| Page/folio: | 147–149 |
| Citation: | Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) private collection, p. 147–149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29878, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php). |
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