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Record Number: 638


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]

Century:

1700-1799, 1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

21 Oct 1772

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

poet, critic, philosopher

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Milton

Title:

Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

638

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Editor:

Heather Jackson

Title:

Marginalia

Place of Publication:

Princeton

Date of Publication:

1980-2001

Vol:

3

Page:

885

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Heather Jackson (ed.), Marginalia, (Princeton, 1980-2001), 3, p. 885, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=638, accessed: 04 December 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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