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Record Number: 33908


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Have you seen Southey’s Vision of Judgement!!!!! O Tempora, O Mores – And is it come to this? And our dear good mother gave me such a hint to praise in her last letter!!! I came off, I think, pretty well, saying that I did not think it the best of S.’s poems. Seriously speaking, our late lamented Monarch did not deserve such an insult to his memory. ...’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1821

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Southey

Title:

A Vision of Judgement

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

1821

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33908

Source:

Print

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Editor:

Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs

Title:

Letters of Hartley Coleridge

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

Letter to Hartley's brother, Derwent Coleridge [1821]

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 65, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33908, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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