Record Number: 31074

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simplicity appealed strongly to adolescent romanticism. The tributes he paid in his early poems to the virgin beauty of growing womanhood were exquisite corroborations of my own ideals and helped me to sustain that ideal against the onslaughts of factory vulgarity.

[Quotes from "Lilian" and "Isabel"]

... I memorized large slices of the Idylls of the King'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1907 and 1909

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Birmingham
county: West Midlands
specific address: Birmingham Central Library
location in dwelling: Reference Room

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vero Walter Garratt

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

17 Feb 1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Factory worker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Title:

'Isabel'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31074

Source:

Print

Author:

Vero Walter Garratt

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Man in the Street

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1939

Vol:

n/a

Page:

93

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vero Walter Garratt, A Man in the Street, (London, 1939), n/a, p. 93, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31074, accessed: 07 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

None