Record Number: 3667
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge."
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively
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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:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:8 Feb 1819
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer and art critic
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Destruction of Sennacherib
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3667
Source:John Ruskin
Editor:Virginia Surtees
Title:Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton.
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1972
Vol:n/a
Page:189-190
Additional Comments:
From the editor's footnote: Ruskin greatly admired Byron's poetry; the quotations are from Destruction of Sennacherib. From letter to Ellen Heaton (12/10/1856).
Citation:
John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton., (London, 1972), p. 189-190, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3667, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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