Record Number: 5956
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in a letter to me after my first meeting with him, "Swinburne meant much to my generation: he was literary, he adored the French masters, who were then our masters in all things: he was generous beyond most poets...:he was one of the real discoverers of Blake: he could write exquisite verse in an age of exquisite verse: he laid us all at his feet with half a dozen things which I cannot read without emotion now. he was one of the first romantic poets to be read by me: and Chastelard, to a boy, is all that the heart can desire and the lines on the death of Baudelaire all that genius and grief can utter".'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1895 and 1900
Country:England or USA
Timen/a
Place:city: New York or London
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1 Jun 1878
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later a writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England or USA
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Chastelard
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5956
Source:Muriel Spark
Editor:n/a
Title:John Masefield
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1953 (rev. ed. 1992)
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Page:41
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Muriel Spark, John Masefield, (London, 1953 (rev. ed. 1992)), p. 41, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5956, accessed: 07 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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