Record Number: 33913

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘The Rydal Mount family...They were all hugely belly-ached with Townshend’s articles in Blackwood, which was almost as silly as the articles themselves. C. H. Townshend is a pretty man, with a pretty Lady, and divers little dogs, who has written some very sweet verses...but how, with his maidenly face, and his soft lisping voice, he could set up for a critical assassin – A Satyrist of the "reigning Vice", a writer of Tragedies of the Satanic school – it caps me.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1830 and 30 Aug 1830

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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Chauncey Hare Townshend

Title:

[essays in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1830

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33913

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:

111-12

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Hartley's brother, Derwent Coleridge, 'Begun August - Finished August 30, [1830.]' 'The Rydal Mount family' to whom Hartley refers are the Wordsworths. Editors' note: ‘Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798-1868), the poet, had met Hartley many years before at Keswick.’

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 111-12, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33913, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None