Evidence: | 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was horrifying... almost utterly invalid...almost entirely without feeling for others. Eliot showed people as ugly, stupid, shabby, vulgarian, squalid, somehow indecent...the 'broken fingernails of dirty hands'...Weren't these my father's and my mother's hands?". The experience of reading it plunged her into depression, but in the late 1920s it was difficult to express her real feelings about one of the greatest living poets...Instead, she channelled her scholarly energies toward the poetry of John Clare, whose work affirmed the literacy of working people'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1925 and 31 Dec 1930 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: a redbrick university | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anne Tibble |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | coachman's daughter |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Clare |
Title: | [poetry] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown studied at university |
Record ID: | 5651 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 399-400 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 399-400, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5651, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Craik, 'Pursuit of Knowledge', vol 2, p. 3. |
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