Record Number: 1849

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth's first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 10 Jul 1804 and 30 Jul 1804

Country:

England

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:

William Wordsworth

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

7 Apr 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Title:

The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. Edmond Malone; 3 vols, 3rd edn, 1801

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

1849

Source:

Print

Author:

Duncan Wu

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1995

Vol:

n/a

Page:

175-76

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815, (1995), p. 175-76, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1849, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

quotation from Ernest De Selincourt, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787-1805 (1967) 490-01.