Evidence: | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! What colouring displayed throughout the works of that admirable author! and yet, for want of time, or opportunity, I have not read his "Fairy Queen" through in series, or at a heat, as I may call it'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | 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: | Edmund Spenser |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6468 | |
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: | 161-2 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 161-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6468, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Letter to Richardson Susanna Highmore, June 1750 |
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