Evidence: | "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines - and was extensively circulated through the English newspapers, in which I remember to have read it with great pleasure upon its first appearance.'" |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1788 and 31 Dec 1788 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Church of England |
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: | William Collins |
Title: | An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | 1788 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 997 | |
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: | 34 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 34, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=997, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Noted in entry 58 (iii) of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, where it is also noted that this Ode appeared in newspapers including the European Magazine 13 (1788), the Gazeteer, 4 April 1788, and the London Chronicle, 1-3 and 3-5 April 1788. |
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