Record Number: 33999

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘...I think I perceive in Wordsworth’s last volume [Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems], a decided inclination to the playful, the elegant and the beautiful; with an almost studied exclusion of the profound feeling and severe thought which characterised the offspring of his middle age. This can be the only reason why Derwent [Coleridge] thinks these poems poor and degenerate; for they are as perfect, perhaps more perfect, in their kind than any of their predecessors: but the kind is less intense, and therefore, incapable of that unique excellence which the disciples adore. ...’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1835 and 21 Aug 1836

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Cumbria

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, 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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Wordsworth

Title:

Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Longman, 1835.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33999

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:

196

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hartley’s mother), at 21 Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated August 21 [1836].

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33999, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge is Sarah Coleridge, née Fricker.