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Record 3436

Reading Experience:

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."'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Sep 1891
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: Kelmscott Manor
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Morris
Title: The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems)
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3436  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

Quotation from Wilfrid Blunt, Diaries 1:57 (30 Sept. 1891).

 

 

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