Record Number: 1040
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undemined his confidence in the status quo: "I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'..
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1914 and 1918
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:other location: in the WWI trenches
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:n/a
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:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Golden Treasury
Genre:Classics, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:1040
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=1040, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See V.W. Garrat, 'A Man in the Street' (London, 1939)