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Record Number: 33958

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

�I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read �Yarrow Revis[ited]� - and some of the new Poems - very sweet, but can�t talk about them here, for I�ve more to say than I�ve room for. All [the Wordsworths] send their love.�

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

15 May 1835

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Rydal
county: Cumbria
specific address: Rydal Mount

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:

Hartley Coleridge

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Wordsworth

Title:

Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1835

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33958

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

174-5

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No. 1 Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated May 16, 1835.

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 174-5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33958, accessed: 04 February 2026

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Additional Comments:

None