Record Number: 19456
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'That book you like so, the Danish novel, must be full of truth & beauty, to judge from the few extracts I have seen in Reviews. That a Dane should write so, confirms me in an old belief -- that Italy is stuff for the use of the North, and no more: pure Poetry there is none, nearly as possible none, in Dante even [...] strange that those great wide black eyes should stare nothing out of the earth that lies before them!'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Mar 1845 and 30 Apr 1845
Country:unknown
Timen/a
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:1812
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts)
Genre:Fiction, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn English translation by Mary Howitt (1845)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19456
Source:n/a
Editor:Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
Title:The Brownings' Correspondence
Place of Publication:Winfield
Date of Publication:1992
Vol:10
Page:184
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 184, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19456, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Source eds. note that extracts from Andersen's novel published in The Athenaeum, 8 and 15 March 1845; see p.185 n.3.
