Record Number: 32903
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
�Carlyle has not put it too strongly in Heroes. It is chiefly a matter of environment with the really great men what shape they take in their power; but with smaller men, such as Wordsworth, I am not quite sure � What made me more sensitive to this is that I have just bought Wordsworth�s life in Jack�s 6d Home Series, and his colossal complacency makes one anxious. What a crowd they must have been�Wordsworth, Dorothy and Coleridge!�
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Oct 1915 and 30 Oct 1915
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Chelmsford
Essex
(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:28 Aug 1890
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Private, Gloucestershire Regiment
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Wordsworth
Genre:Poetry, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:32903
Source:Ivor Gurney
Editor:R. K. R. Thornton,
Title:Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters
Place of Publication:Manchester
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:n/a
Page:50
Additional Comments:
Letter to Marion Scott, violinist and musicologist, October 1915, Chelmsford, Essex
Citation:
Ivor Gurney, R. K. R. Thornton, (ed.), Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters, (Manchester, 1991), p. 50, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32903, accessed: 16 February 2026
Additional Comments:
The identity of this work is very speculative, the only clues being the subject and the name of the publishers, probably T. C. and E. C. Jack.
