Record Number: 11355
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A sense of overpowering gloom is connected in my mind with Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris", which I read in English, and an impression of a livid brightness with "The Scarlet Letter"; but that is all. Of Carlyle's "French Revolution" all that remains is a sentence like a radiant hillside caught through a rift in a black cloud: the passage where he describes the high-shouldered ladies dancing with the gentlemen of the French Court on a bright summer evening, while outside the yellow cornfields stretched from end to end of France'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1898 and 31 Dec 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:French Revolution
Genre:History, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11355
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:90-91
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography, (London, 1940), p. 90-91, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11355, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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