Record Number: 5488

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

H. J. Jackson discusses Rupert Brooke's pencilled notes, "clearly made out on a single reading," in copy of Raymond Macdonald Alden, Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature (1909); notes that Brooke acquired the book when aged twenty-one.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Rupert Brooke

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 08 1887

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

n/a

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:

Raymond Macdonald Alden

Title:

Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Textbook / self-education

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1909, London: G. Bell & Sons.

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5488

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

112-20

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, (New Haven, 2001), p. 112-20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5488, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None