Record Number: 18862
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jul 1820 and 28 Jul 1820
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Altrive
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:Nov 1770
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:farmer / author
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1820
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18862
Source:James Hogg
Editor:Gillian Hughes
Title:Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:II
Page:36
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18862, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to William Blackwood. Review of a book by Washington Irving.