Record Number: 32411
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem half funny & half fantastic that I like very much. But the print, tho' clear, is very small.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Nov 1916 and 15 Nov 1916
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:Troilus and Creseyde
Genre:Poetry, Narrative poem
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Oxford University Press, 1903 (World's Classics Series, no. 56)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:32411
Source:C. S. Lewis
Editor:Walter Hooper
Title:C. S. Lewis Collected Letters
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2000
Vol:1
Page:250
Additional Comments:
From a letter to Arthur Greeves, 8 November 1916.
Citation:
C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 250, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32411, accessed: 29 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Lewis specifies that the edition was 'World's Classics' and that it included 'The House of Fame', which identifies it precisely as no. 56 in that series. I can't determine whether he found this 'scrubby edition' in a library or a book shop!
