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Record 8535

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates him highly. He has great thoughts and imaginations, but he sometimes misleads himself by his own facility of talking brilliantly. However, I have not perhaps studied him sufficiently.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1841 and 31 Dec 1841
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Alfred Tennyson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1809
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: Poet
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title: Essays
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1841
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8535  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Cecil Land
  Title: The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1982
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 193
  Additional comments: Eds Cecil Y Land and Edgar F Shannon Jr.

Citation: Cecil Land (ed.), The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Oxford, 1982), p. 193, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8535, accessed: 23 April 2024

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