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
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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, biographer
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:[unknown]
Genre:Classics, Essays / Criticism, History, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33964
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: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: 10 November 2024
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