Record Number: 17356
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 16 Jul 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city
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:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer, intermittent law student
Religion:Church of Scotland (wavering)
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[poems]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication DetailsThe poems first published 1827, the songs 1828.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17356
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:31
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Section dated Thursday [16 July 1874] of Letter 294, To Frances Sitwell. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 31, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17356, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
P. 31, Note 5, reads: Schubert?s setting (1828) of two of Heine?s poems Buch der Lieder [not in note: first published 1827]. ?[italics]Die Heimkehr[end italics]" XXIV and VIII. Cf. Letter 570, n. 3.