| Evidence: | 'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Scarcely since I first came across Rossetti have I received so new, so fresh, so powerful an impression from any work or style of verse. I have added a new string to my bow".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1884 and 5 Aug 1884 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Arthur Symons |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 28 Feb 1865 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | preacher's son, later poet |
| Religion: | Wesleyan, later none |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Theophile Gautier |
| Title: | Emaux et Camees |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 12189 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Karl Beckson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Arthur Symons. A Life | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 21 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons. A Life (Oxford, 1987), p. 21, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12189, accessed: 25 May 2013 | |
| Quotation taken from a 5th August 1884 letter to Osborne held at Princeton |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 19th Jun 2009 11:47am (GMT)