| Evidence: | 'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very grand [both words underlined] things in festus... I have these last two days been reading 'Festus'... This sublimity is Michael-Angelic.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1846 and 30 Nov 1846 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Cheltenham | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | Philip James Bailey |
| Title: | Festus |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London, 1845 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 8540 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 265-6 | |
| Additional comments: | Eds Cecil Y Land and Edgar F Shannon Jr. |
| Citation: | Cecil Land (ed.), The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Oxford, 1982), p. 265-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8540, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
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