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Record Number: 33527


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellington's Army, and after tea I had a talk with Sabira Magre ... Later I again visited the kitchen, to learn how to make scones ... The evening has been spent in reading Wellington's Army and various things in the Oxford Book of Verse. I should have said that either Kipling or Newbolt would have made a better National Poet than Bridges, for, though doubtless his verse is more faultless than theirs, and is not the doggerel that much of their is, yet it seems to lack life and spontaneity, and the true spirit of a poet.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

10 Aug 1914

Country:

India

Time

evening
daytime

Place:

city: Chitral
county

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Dunlop Smith

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Sep 1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Second Lieutenant, Indian Army

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

India

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Oman

Title:

Wellington's Army, 1809-1814

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

33527

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Dunlop Smith

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Robert Dunlop Smith, 1892-1917

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen

Date of Publication:

1921

Vol:

n/a

Page:

109

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Robert Dunlop Smith, Robert Dunlop Smith, 1892-1917, (Aberdeen, 1921), p. 109, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33527, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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