| Evidence: | 'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]included an extract from [William Julius Mickle's] Sir Martyn in the Album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ... ' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1789 and 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 07 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| 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 Bell |
| Title: | Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry |
| Genre: | Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Vol 10 (1789) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 853 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 14 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 14, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=853, accessed: 04 February 2023 | |
| Information from entry 25 in Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1791. Wu notes that Wordsworth may already have known The Minstrel, and perhaps Sir Martyn by 1787 (so from other sources), and that Wordsworth could have first seen Mathews's copy of Bell (1789), containing these pieces, as late as 1795 stay in London - so Wordsworth's actual reading of Bell (1789) either then or afterwards uncertain, especially as Wu can only "presume" that his request for Mathews's copy was responded to. |
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