Record Number: 21098

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effect is fumbly [...] Don't expect to pursue Clough beyond the anthology-pieces.'

Century:

1800-1849, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1940 and 31 Dec 1940

Country:

n/a

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:

Edward Morgan Forster

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1879

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Arthur Hugh Clough

Title:

Dipsychus

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1865; source ed. notes that Forster owned 1878 edition of Clough's Poems

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21098

Source:

Print

Author:

E. M. Forster

Editor:

Philip Gardner

Title:

Commonplace Book

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1985

Vol:

n/a

Page:

117

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book, (London, 1985), p. 117, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21098, accessed: 19 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. translates title as meaning 'in two minds'; see p.304.