Record Number: 11343
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "Adonais", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", and Mathew Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult". We were given "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "The Pied Piper" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked "The Pied Piper", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were "The Eve of Saint Agnes" and "Tristram and Iseult"...'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 15 May 1899 and 1 Jan 1901
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Garth
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:15 May 1887
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:farmer's son, later poet
Religion:Protestant
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Excursion
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailspublished in school reader
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11343
Source:Edwin Muir
Editor:n/a
Title:The story and the fable: An autobiography
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1940
Vol:n/a
Page:87
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography, (London, 1940), p. 87, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11343, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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