Evidence: | 'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his poems ... including The Haystack in the Floods, but his reading is without the graces of elocution."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Sep 1891 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Kelmscott Manor | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Morris |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 24 Mar 1834 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer/designer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Wilfrid Blunt |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Morris |
Title: | The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems) |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3436 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Philip Waller | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 366 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 366, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3436, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Quotation from Wilfrid Blunt, Diaries 1:57 (30 Sept. 1891). |
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