Record Number: 32364

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished "The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I have to find with it is that it is too short — in itself a compliment. It never wearies you from first to last, and considering the time when it was written, some things about it, the writer's power of getting up atmosphere for instance, quite in the Bronte manner, are little short of marvellous.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 11 May 1916 and 16 May 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

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:

Clive Staples Lewis

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ernest John Brigham Kirtlan

Title:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literally into Modern English from the Alliterative Romance Poem of AD 1360, from Cotton MS Nero A x in British Museum, with an Introduction on the Arthur and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Arthurian romance. This version is prose, not poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Charles H. Kelly, 1912

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32364

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

180

Additional Comments:

From a letter to Arthur Greeves, 16 May 1916

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 180, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32364, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The edition used by Lewis is mentioned by Hooper in a footnote. That Lewis owned this copy is implied by his referring to 'my Gawaine' in a letter to Arthur Greeves, 20 June 1916 (v.1, p. 195).