Record Number: 16993

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842: 'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ago -- & I have read the last line & end gratefully to the poet. The tragedy [italics]fails[end italics] [...] yet has more dramatic feature occasionally than I had expected to find [...] Among the other poems there are some four or five sonnets which are supremely excellent [makes other criticisms]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 11 Apr 1842 and 13 Apr 1842

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Wordsworth

Title:

Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1842

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16993

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

5

Page:

313

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 313, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16993, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None