Record Number: 32998
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘The other day I read a Biography of Tennyson, which says he was unhappy, even in the midst of his fame, wealth, and domestic serenity. Divine discontent! I can quite believe he never knew happiness for one moment such as I have … But as for misery, was he ever frozen alive, with dead men for comforters. Did he ever hear the moaning at the bar, not at twilight and evening bell only, but at dawn, noon, and night, eating and sleeping, walking and working, always the close moaning of the Bar; the thunder, the hissing and the whining of the Bar?’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 20 Jul 1917 and 6 Aug 1917
Country:Scotland
Timedaytime
Place:city: Craiglockhart
county: Edinburgh and Lothian
specific address: Craiglockhart War Hospital
(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:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown biography of Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:32998
Source:Wilfred Owen
Editor:Harold Owen
Title:Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1967
Vol:n/a
Page:482
Additional Comments:
Letter to (?) Leslie Gunston 8 August 1917, Craiglockhart War Hospital
Citation:
Wilfred Owen, Harold Owen (ed.), Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters, (London, 1967), p. 482, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32998, accessed: 08 November 2024
Additional Comments:
The date range is speculative. At least 4 biographies of Tennyson had appeared by 1917.