Record Number: 306
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich profusion of rustic imagery about it which I find nowhere else. It opens a scene of rural plenty and comfort which quite fills the imagination, - flowers, fruits, leaves, fountains, soft goatskins, old wine, singing birds, joyous friendly companions. The whole has an air of reality which is more interesting than the conventional world which Virgil has placed in Arcadia". So Macaulay characterises the Seventh Idyll of Theocritus.'
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 25 Oct 1800 and 28 Dec 1859
Country:India
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:25 Oct 1800
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:historian and critic
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Seventh Idyll
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:306
Source:Thomas Babington Macaulay
Editor:George Otto Trevelyan
Title:The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1978
Vol:2
Page:402
Additional Comments:
Appendix on Macaulay's marginal notes. Editorial commentary in single inverted commas; double inverted commas denote Macaulay's marginalia.
Citation:
Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 402, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=306, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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