Record Number: 32979
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘‘Tis a crude, vagabondage of a life … here I am watching a fair old village toppling about my head. I think the wreckage will look even sicklier when the orchard-trees break out, like the souls of infants in Limbo. I am able to read here, but have nothing left now. I receive your Red Triangle with gratitude, but do you think, now, I’m going to read the war-impressions of home-editors? If, here & there, you get a true version of the business—so much the more unreadable … I still tipple "Punch" as hilariously as ever. But don’t send any, for some one or other is bound to have one. What I should like would be a current Poetry Review.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 9 Jan 1917 and 11 Mar 1917
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Le Quesnoy-en Santerre
county: Somme
(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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:18 Mar 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:2/Lt., 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Punch
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:32979
Source:Wilfred Owen
Editor:Harold Owen
Title:Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1967
Vol:n/a
Page:442
Additional Comments:
Letter to undisclosed recipient, 11 March 1917 Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre (Somme)
Citation:
Wilfred Owen, Harold Owen (ed.), Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters, (London, 1967), p. 442, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32979, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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