Record Number: 33911
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘You perhaps recollect the only rememberable lines in Prior’s Solomon – that very respectable poem, which nevertheless, is rather too like one of Mrs. Fry’s Newgate-made Quakeresses to be quite so moral as Mat meant it to be. Yet it is an excellent copy of verses, the work of no common genius, but of a man worse both in head and heart for being a Batchelor and a Politician. Well, but the line is: "And tho' I call'd another, Abra came."'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 19 Sep 1796 and 30 Aug 1830
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: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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Solomon on the Vanity of the World
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33911
Source: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:106
Additional Comments:
Letter addressed to Hartley's brother, Derwent Coleridge, 'Begun August - Finished August 30, [1830.]' Editor’s note: ‘Hartley refers to Matthew Prior’s Solomon on the Vanity of the World, ii. I. 363.'
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 106, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33911, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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