Record Number: 15591
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of the substantive with the article, besides (as in Dante) many other grammatical errors in the persons & cases of Verbs. But so it is -- Liberty is essential to the nature of Poetry [goes on to discuss this idea further]'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:17 Dec 1820
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Pisa
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:Female
Date of Birth:27 Apr 1798
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:trainee writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:sonnets
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:15591
Source:Claire Clairmont
Editor:Marion Kingston Stocking
Title:The Journals of Claire Clairmont
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Publication:1968
Vol:n/a
Page:194-195; 195
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 194-195; 195, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15591, accessed: 03 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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