Record Number: 12146
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever seen". When he refused to give it up, the warder said he might keep it... "Don Quixote" awakened in Arthur a "passion for reading", and before long, he had read Scott, then Byron, who, he had been told was" a very, very great poet, and a very, very wicked man, an atheist, a writer whom it was dangerous to read".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Feb 1865
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:Wesleyan 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12146
Source:Karl Beckson
Editor:n/a
Title:Arthur Symons: A Life
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1987
Vol:n/a
Page:7-8
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons: A Life, (Oxford, 1987), p. 7-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12146, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotations from Symons' "Collected Works", Volume 10