Record Number: 19500
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 5 Mar 1813
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Grantham
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:24 Dec 1754
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:clergyman and poet
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Rejected Addresses
Genre:Poetry, parody
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailspublished 1812
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19500
Source:George Crabbe
Editor:Thomas Faulkner
Title:Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1985
Vol:n/a
Page:101-2
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, (Oxford, 1985), p. 101-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19500, accessed: 27 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Additional author, James Smith. Letter to Walter Scott
