Record Number: 18054
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Is not this verse pretty? Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine -- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 16 Nov 1874
Country:Scotland
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Place:n/a
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:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer and intermittent law student
Religion:Church of Scotland (wavering)
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:To One in Paradise (1834)
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPossibly in first two vols of J.H. Ingram's edition of Poe's Works, 1874. See Section 3, Additional Comments.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18054
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:83
Additional Comments:
Section headed Monday [16 November] in Letter 333, To Frances Sitwell [Saturday 14 November 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 83, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18054, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Thou wast all that [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine− A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine? Edgar Allan Poe, To One in Paradise (1834) p. 83, editors? Note 10 to Letter 333 reads: Edgar Allan Poe?s ?To One in Paradise?, reprinted in his story ?The assignation?. RLS reviewed the first two volumes of J.H. Ingram?s edition of Poe?s Works containing "The Tales" (1874) in "The Academy", 2 January 1875.