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Record Number: 22569


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 24 Aug 1930 and 30 Jul 1933

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Launceston
county: Cornwall

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charles Causley

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

24 Aug 1917

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

later poet

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Graves

Title:

[war poetry]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

22569

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Harry Chambers

Title:

Causley at Seventy

Place of Publication:

Calstock

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

n/a

Page:

104

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Harry Chambers (ed.), Causley at Seventy, (Calstock, 1987), p. 104, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22569, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

source: essay 'A Kitchen in the Morning' by Charles Causley.

   
   
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