Record Number: 34086
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'"The day was fair and sunny, sea and sky "Drank its inspiring radiance, and the wind "Swept strongly from the shore, blackening the waves." I went to my seat on the cliff and read; beneath this projecting rock the sea "On bare black pointed islets ever beats "With heaving surge."' [The quotation however is 'On black bare pointed islets ever beat / With sluggish surge']. 'As I have started giving quotations you will have to endure more, or burn the letter [...] I reached there before two today and stayed till seven. I think an August afternoon is the best time of the year...'
Century:1900-1945
Date:26 Aug 1906
Country:France
Timeafternoon: 'before two and stayed till seven'
evening
city: Dinard
other location: 'seat on the cliff'
(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:16 Aug 1888
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Wales
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34086
Source:T. E. Lawrence
Editor:M. R. Lawrence
Title:The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1954
Vol:n/a
Page:32
Additional Comments:
'Letter from T. E. Lawrence [signed Ned] to his Mother, Dinard, Sunday, 26th August, 1906'. The quotations are from 'Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude' , by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Citation:
T. E. Lawrence, M. R. Lawrence (ed.), The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Oxford, 1954), n/a, p. 32, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34086, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
citation for section 3:4 'T. E. Lawrence studies' accessed at http://www.telstudies.org on 5 February 2016 citation for section 2: quotation accessed at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174380 on 20 February 2016 'I have not entered all the relevant reading experiences from this book'.