Record Number: 5529
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his delight in reading them, that he determined on writing himself a poem in six cantos which he called the "Battle of Cheviot?'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 25 Oct 1800 and Sep 1808
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Clapham
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:25 Oct 1800
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Historian / critic
Religion:Christian
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:Marmion
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5529
Source:Thomas Babington Macaulay
Editor:George Otto Trevelyan
Title:Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1971
Vol:n/a
Page:28
Additional Comments:
Letter from Macaulay?s mother, dated September 1808
Citation:
Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1971), p. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5529, accessed: 06 December 2024
Additional Comments:
None