Record Number: 1656
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
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:translation of Virgil, Eclogues
Genre:Classics, Poetry, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Details50 copies published 1815
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:1656
Source:William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Editor:Ernest De Selincourt
Title:The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years (1812-1820)
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:2
Page:523
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years (1812-1820), (Oxford, 1970), 2, p. 523, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1656, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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