Record Number: 17082
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842: 'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaulay's Lays of Rome -- a kind of revenge on that literature which so long plagued ours with Muses, and Apollo, and Luna and all that, -- by taking the stalest subjects in it, and as plentifully bestowing on them the commonplaces of our indigenous ballad-verse -- "Then out spake brave Sir Cocles" -- "Go, hark ye, stout Sir Consul" -- and a deal more: I have only seen extracts, but they gave me this notion.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Dec 1842 and 13 Dec 1842
Country:England
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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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:7 May 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
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:Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts)
Genre:Classics, History, Poetry, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Details[?] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, December 1842, in which extracts appeared.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17082
Source:n/a
Editor:Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
Title:The Brownings' Correspondence
Place of Publication:Winfield
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:6
Page:221
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 221, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17082, accessed: 18 May 2025
Additional Comments:
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