Record Number: 32058
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an ordinary man's as does a passage of Ęschylus.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between Jul 1915 and 1916
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:other location: trench
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:13 Feb 1864
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Captain, Connaught Rangers; journalist, poet, and politician
Religion:Church of Ireland
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Le Feu
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:32058
Source:R. H. Kiernan
Editor:n/a
Title:Little Brother Goes Soldiering
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1930
Vol:n/a
Page:10
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
R. H. Kiernan, Little Brother Goes Soldiering, (London, 1930), p. 10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32058, accessed: 12 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Gwynn served with the Connaught Rangers at Messines and in the Somme campaign, but it is impossible to pin down the exact location of his reading of Barbusse from this passage.