Record Number: 1310
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1912 and 1919
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Glasgow
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:n/a
Date of Birth:1887
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:worked in various offices including bone factory, later poet and critic
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
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 Lotus Eaters'
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:1310
Source:Margery McCulloch
Editor:n/a
Title:Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:5
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Margery McCulloch, Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist, (Edinburgh, 1993), p. 5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1310, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
See Edwin Muir, 'An Autobiography' (1954) p.99