Record Number: 1850
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth]'s first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804. He had, of course, referred to the Discourses in the 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads."
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
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:7 Apr 1770
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Discourses
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:1850
Source:Duncan Wu
Editor:n/a
Title:Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:175-76
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815, (1995), p. 175-76, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1850, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
quotation from Ernest De Selincourt, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787-1805 (1967) 490-01.
