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Record Number: 32362


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The "British Ballads" has come, and though I am awfully bucked with the edition — I can't think why I didn't appreciate it before. This must be a triumph for you — the reading matter is not nearly so good as I expected. For one thing, instead of being all made up of real old ballads as I hoped, it is half full of silly modern imitations and even funny ones. Don't you loathe "funny" poetry?'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 10 Mar 1916 and 14 Mar 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Reginald Brimley Johnson

Title:

The Book of British Ballads

Genre:

Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Dent, 1914 (Everyman's Library, from the series 'English Literature for Schools', ed. Arthur Burrell)

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

32362

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

173

Additional Comments:

From a letter to Arthur Greeves, 14 March 1916

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 173, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32362, accessed: 09 October 2024


Additional Comments:

This copy was in a deluxe edition: 'the chocolate binding of which I used to disapprove.' (Letter to Arthur Greeves, 7 March 1916, v.1, p. 170)

   
   
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