Record Number: 28733
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 12 May 1851:
'I fear it cannot be denied that Mr Thackeray has actually gone and written a poem. The
whole of the May-Day Ode is not poetry — that I will
maintain — it opens with decent prose — but at the fourth stanza "I felt a thrill of love and
awe" — it begins to swell: towards the middle it waxes strong and rises high, takes a tone
sustained and sweet, fills the ear with music, the heart with glow and expansion -- becomes
in a word — POETRY. Shame and sin that the man who [italics]can[end italics] write thus —
should write thus so seldom!'
1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Apr 1849 and 12 May 1851
Country:England
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:Female
Date of Birth:21 Apr 1816
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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: Title:'May-Day Ode'
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28733
Source:n/a
Editor:Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington
Title:The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:2:3
Page:232-233
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 232-233, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28733, accessed: 01 May 2024
Additional Comments:
None
