Record Number: 34023

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I should like to have three more copies of the poem, if you will kindly send them. I give sparingly—to those only who are able to appreciate good poetry, and you give us the best to be had these days. That imagination of the poet which can bring back to us—can smite is—with a memory of past scenes and experiences vivid as reality itself, is a thing I never cease to wonder at [...]. I get many thrills in your St. Thomas and greatly admire that Dante-like ghostly facetiousness of the Captain in his account of India.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

5 Aug 1911

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 40 St. Luke's Road, West London

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:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

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:

Lascelles Abercrombie

Title:

The Sale of Saint Thomas [The First Act of a Play in Verse]

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

privately published: Dymock, 1911 (full verse drama published by Secker only in 1931)

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34023

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

Denis Shrubsall

Title:

The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922

Place of Publication:

Lewiston NY and Lampeter

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

2

Page:

457

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to Lascelles Abercrombie, 5 August 1911, 40 St Lukes Road, W. London

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston NY and Lampeter, 2006), 2, p. 457, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34023, accessed: 07 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None