Record Number: 19574
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 25 Mar 1819
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bath
specific address: Mr Hoare's house
(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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Human Life, A Poem
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
read at Mr Hoare's house
Source Information:
Record ID:19574
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:265
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, (Oxford, 1985), p. 265, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19574, accessed: 16 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter to Samuel Rogers. Crabbe had seen the poem in MS and Rogers sent him a copy (which this letter thanks for)
