Record Number: 32356
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" and prefers that snivelling metaphysician Euripides to Aeschylus.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Nov 1915 and 4 Dec 1915
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:29 Nov 1898
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Northern Ireland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histories of the Literatures of the World, v.1. Series edited by Edmund Gosse)
Genre:Classics, Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Heinemann, 1897
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:32356
Source:C. S. Lewis
Editor:Walter Hooper
Title:C. S. Lewis Collected Letters
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2000
Vol:1
Page:158
Additional Comments:
From a letter to his father, Postmark: 4 December 1915.
Citation:
C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 158, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32356, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
This book is discussed immediately after Andrew Lang's 'History of English Literature', which is described as on loan from the London Library. I think Murray's book may have come from the same source. I am fairly certain that the subscription would belong to Mr Kirkpatrick.
