Record Number: 28573
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The Briefwechsel [Goethe-SChiller correspondence] I have also read; and must soon read again; purposing to make it the handle for an Essay on Schiller, in the Foreign Review. I particularly admired the honourable relation that displays itself between Schiller and his Friend; the frankness in mutual giving and receiving; the noble effort on both sides; a reverence for foreign excellence is finely united with a modest self-dependence, in Schiller; whose simple, high, earnest nature again comes into clear light, in this Correspondence.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 3 Oct 1829 and 3 Nov 1829
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:specific address: Craigenputtoch
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:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
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:Correspondence
Genre:Miscellany / Anthology, Correspondence
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28573
Source:Thomas Carlyle
Editor:C. R. Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, North Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:5
Page:27
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C. R. Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 5, p. 27, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28573, accessed: 17 March 2025
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Goethe, dated 3rd November 1829. Pages 26-29 in this edition. Date range based on date of this letter (in which he thanks Goethe for the package), and an earlier reference in the letter to it having arrived 4 weeks earlier.
