Evidence: | 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I would gladly subscribe to nearly all your criticism, if I had not a feeling that in some points wh. you touch, I am too much of an outsider for any subscription to have much value. The only criticism wh. I might cavil a bit would concern the Bard. I never could feel that the old gentleman ought to derive so much satisfaction from the advent of the Tudor destiny; & Gray?s desire to administer that bit of consolation seems to me to miss the point & rather spoil his design. Still I am fond of the Bard as one is fond of what one has already known by heart.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1882 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Leslie Stephen |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 28 Nov 1832 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4018 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Leslie Stephen | |
Editor: | John Bicknell | |
Title: | The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 | |
Place of Publication: | Ohio State University Press | |
Date of Publication: | 2 | |
Vol: | 1996 | |
Page: | 250 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Stephen to Edmund Gosse (10/7/1882). |
Citation: | Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 (Ohio State University Press, 2), 1996, p. 250, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4018, accessed: 09 December 2023 |
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