Record Number: 1035
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shelley, and Tennyson "swamped the trivialities of life and gave my ego a fulness and strength in the lustre of which noble conceptions were born and flourished'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/anight: evening class
Place:city: Birmingham
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:1892
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:factory worker
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancereading group
Source Information:
Record ID:1035
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
Vol:n/a
Page:43
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 43, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1035, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See V.W. Garrat, 'A Man in the Street' (London, 1939)