Record Number: 34338
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I feel that I am going to get anything out of it I can read in a prose or verse book for an infinite space of time. At school I was birched into reading Vergil, who always excited in me the same hostility that was aroused by Goethe's FAUST. Homer was also spoiled for me a good deal by the schoolmaster. The schoolmaster did not contrive however to spoil for me Euripides. I have a good part of the BACCHAE and some of the ALKESTIS still by heart. But so, indeed, I have Books Two and nine of the AENEID, so that those mnemonics form no criterion; But for myself I have, I have read most of the books recommended for the formation of my mind in HOW TO READ—excepting of course "CONFUCIUS in full..." [...] I have read Doughty's DAWN IN BRITAIN, an epic in twelve books. And SORDELLO only last night. And CANTO'S.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Unknown
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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:17 Dec 1873
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Dawn in Britain
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Duckworth, 1906
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34338
Source:Ezra Pound
Editor:Brita Lindberg-Seyersted
Title:Pound/Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:1982
Vol:n/a
Page:104
Additional Comments:
Ford reviewing in April 1932 in the "New Review" Ezra Pound's book of essays 'How to Read' which had appeared in book form in 1931.
Citation:
Ezra Pound, Brita Lindberg-Seyersted (ed.), Pound/Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship, (New York, 1982), p. 104, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34338, accessed: 20 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The date range and place of reading this epic, first published in 1906 and not reprinted until 1935, is unknown.