Record Number: 33938
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth” which I am warned against. I admire, nay revere, what is great, excellent and beautiful. And excellent in Wordsworth - that is five sixths of his works - but I am not, and never was a convert to his peculiar sect of poetry. ...’
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Apr 1833 and 7 Oct 1833
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria
(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:19 Sep 1796
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet, essayist, teacher, biographer
Religion:Church of England
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:[Review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Quarterly Review]
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsvolume xlix (April 1833)
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:33938
Source:Hartley Coleridge
Editor:Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs
Title:Letters of Hartley Coleridge
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:157
Additional Comments:
Letter to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No. 1. Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated Monday 7th October, 1833.
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 157, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33938, accessed: 20 January 2025
Additional Comments:
None
