the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Francis Turner Palgrave (ed) : Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics

‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders of the “Intimations” Ode. But what I really want is a Marcus Aurelius, a small cheap one. Would you send it me? The Gospels annoy me by their emptiness, and the eloquence of St Paul though good enough in some place is mere argumentative theology only too often … As for news, you in England are far more fortunate than we. My self I love newspapers when my brain is watery, and none I have seen that is not a week old. In reserve however I was a hardened but often puzzled reader of "Le Telegramme", "Le Journal", "Le Petit Parisien", "Le Matin".

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney      Print: Book

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