Evidence: | " ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Child is made an Eunuch.'" |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1618 and 1636 | ||||||||||
Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | location in dwelling: mother's parlour | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Abraham Cowley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1618 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edmund Spenser |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6205 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Adrian Johns | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making | |
Place of Publication: | Chicago | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 383 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 383, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6205, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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