Record Number: 32373

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I hope you noticed the leader in this week's Literary Supplement — on Edgar Allan Poe? I never heard such affectation and preciosity; the man who thinks the "Raven" tawdry just because it is easily appreciated, and says that in "The choice of words Poe has touched greater heights than De Quincy" ought — well, what can we say of him?'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

22 Jun 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:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

'Edgar Allan Poe'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Leading article

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Times Literary Supplement (22 June 1916), 289-90

Provenance

owned
Probably owned by the Kirkpatrick household

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32373

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:

199

Additional Comments:

From a letter to his father, 23 June 1916

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 199, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32373, accessed: 21 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None