Record Number: 33717
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own existence that I experienced at that period.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1908 and 1918
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Naturalist, writer
Religion:Protestant
Country of Origin:Argentina
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Centuries of Meditations or Poems of Felicity
Genre:Other religious, Poetry, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1908 or 1910
Provenanceunknown
The context however suggests that Hudson owned these works
Source Information:
Record ID:33717
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1918
Vol:n/a
Page:36
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33717, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
This is a reflection from old age of recurrent influential adult reading, and comparing it with his own direct childhood experiences of nature on the Argentinian pampas. Traherne's works were only rediscovered in the very late 19th century as previously unknown manuscripts, and the first to be published was 'Centuries of Meditations' (ed. by Bertram Dobell (London: Dobell, 1908) followed in by 'Poems of Felicity' ed. by H. I. Bell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910). No other works of Traherne were published during Hudson's lifetime. The context of the evidence with the linkage with Henry Vaughan tends to suggest that Hudson had read Traherne's poems as well as his prose meditations.
