Record Number: 3880
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him especially; but now I love him. He is so thoroughly manly & tender & honest as far as his lights go that he seems to me the only consoler. I despise most of your religious people, who cultivate their maudlin humours & despise even more your sentimentalist of the atheist kind; but old W. W. is a genuine human being, whom I respect.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:1876
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Nov 1832
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:3880
Source:Leslie Stephen
Editor:John Bicknell
Title:The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882
Place of Publication:Ohio State University Press
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:1
Page:170
Additional Comments:
Letter from Leslie Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (5/3/1876), describing one of his ways of coping with the death of his wife Minny.
Citation:
Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882, (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 1, p. 170, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3880, accessed: 02 May 2024
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