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Record Number: 29496


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am somewhat glad that you have given up that Paper - it must have been dry, unprofitable, and of "dissonant mood" to your disposition.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

UK, England

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charles Lamb

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

10 Feb 1775

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer.

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

UK, England

Country of Experience:

UK, England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Title:

Religious Musings

Genre:

Poetry, Extracts from poems, published in periodical.

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.

Publication Details

1796

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

29496

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Lamb

Editor:

Edward Lucas

Title:

The Letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1935

Vol:

1

Page:

1

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Charles Lamb, Edward Lucas (ed.), The Letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb, (London, 1935), 1, p. 1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29496, accessed: 08 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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