Record Number: 14156
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for grammatical analysis, appears to my prejudiced mind to be a kind of intellectual vivisection. The life is destroyed in the act of discovering and distinguishing the elements of which its body os composed. A young friend of mine said to me that she had 'done' the story of Margaret, in the Excursion, with notes, for a correspondence class [...] All that she had retained from this 'doing' was, as far as I can gather, nothing but the fact that she had 'done' it. Feeling, admiration, there was none. The poetry had been a lesson to be "got through."'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
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:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:child
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
a "young friend" of Elizabeth Sewell
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Excursion (excerpts)
Genre:Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14156
Source:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Editor:n/a
Title:'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century)
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1888
Vol:23
Page:218
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century), (1888), 23, p. 218, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14156, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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