Record Number: 11251
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?' Later, 'It was Blair's "Grave" that really delighted me, and I frightened myself with its melodious doleful images in earnest.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jun 1861 and 31 Aug 1861
Country:England
Timeafternoon: Sunday afternoon
Place:county: Devon
location in dwelling: garden of family home , in Devon
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1849
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:son of zoological writer
Religion:Plymouth Brethren
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
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 Grave
Genre:Other religious, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:11251
Source:Edmund Gosse
Editor:n/a
Title:Father and Son: a study of two temperments
Place of Publication:Keele: Ryburn Publishing
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:n/a
Page:164-166
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments, (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 164-166, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11251, accessed: 12 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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