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Record Number: 33964


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘As to the Thucydides, I cannot think it exactly the book for me - considering how little access I have at present to classical books, and how little I know of those critical niceties, on which the merits of an edition of Thucydides must hang. I think a book might have been selected more in my way. But if I had Arnold’s Thucydides, which I have not, nor Mr.Wordsworth either, I would set about it. I delicately hinted the thing to Dr. Arnold himself when he was here - but he said he had no copy. ...’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 19 Sep 1796 and 30 Sep 1835

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, biographer

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:

Thucydides

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Classics, Essays / Criticism, History, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33964

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:

177-8

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No 1. Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, dated ‘Saturday - I don’t know what’ [September 1835]. Editors’ note: ‘Tho[ma]s. Arnold’s Thucydides appeared in 3 volumes between 1830 and 1835.’

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 177-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33964, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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