Record Number: 1174
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters which you have express'd when I read them many years ago.'"
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:7 Apr 1770
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Epistolarum
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:1174
Source:Duncan Wu
Editor:n/a
Title:Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1993
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Page:112
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, (Cambridge, 1993), p. 112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1174, accessed: 11 December 2024
Additional Comments:
From entry 200 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799; quote from Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, 1967.