Record Number: 1097

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted the latin measures' (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 1, p.91).

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

21 Sep 1798

Country:

Germany

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Germany

Country of Experience:

Germany

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Title:

[odes]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

1097

Source:

Print

Author:

Duncan Wu

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

81

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, (Cambridge, 1993), p. 81, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1097, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Noted in entry 144 (ii) of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799.