Evidence: | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done infinite mischief for a series of ages; since to it, and its copy the "Eneid", is owing, in a great measure, the savage spirit that has actuated, from the earliest ages to this time, the fighting fellows that, worse than lions or tigers, have ravaged the earth, and made it a field of blood'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Richardson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 19 Aug 1689 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | printer and author |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | Virgil |
Title: | Aeneid |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6463 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Richardson | |
Editor: | John Carroll | |
Title: | Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1964 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 134 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6463, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Letter to Lady Bradshaigh, 1749 |
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