Record Number: 28595
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Dec 1829 and 5 Jan 1830
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
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: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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author:Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen
Title:Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: BookUnknown
Publication DetailsBerlin, 1812
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
Source Information:
Record ID:28595
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:61
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. 61, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28595, accessed: 10 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from TC to David Aitken, dated 26th January 1830, written at Craigenputtoch, Dumfries. Pages 59-62 in this edition. Editor's notes states that although Carlyle cites Docen 7 Hagen, that he clearly means this work by von der Hagen and Johann Gustav Gottlieb Busching.
