Record Number: 1635
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more than an untroubled and dreamless sleep]: "Milton thought otherwise" [Macaulay quotes the lines "Sad cure! For who would lose,/Though full of pain, this intellectual being;/ Those thoughts that wander through eternity?"] "I once thought with Milton; but every day brings me nearer and nearer the doctrine here laid down by Socrates."
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 May 1837 and 31 Dec 1839
Country:India
Timen/a
Place:city: Calcutta
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:25 Oct 1800
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Historian and critic
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Gorgias
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsThe edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:1635
Source:Thomas Babington Macaulay
Editor:George Otto Trevelyan
Title:The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1978
Vol:2
Page:438-9
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 438-9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1635, accessed: 30 December 2024
Additional Comments:
This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta.
