Record Number: 18549

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly through a tangle of words ideas emerge.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 Jul 1934

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1888

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer/publishing editor

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

America

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Virginia Woolf and fellow guests at dinner-party given by Mary Hutchinson.

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Barker

Title:

poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18549

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1982

Vol:

4

Page:

230-231; 231

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1982), 4, p. 230-231; 231, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18549, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that two volumes by Barker, Thirty Preliminary Poems, and Alanna Autumnal (prose) had been published by Eliot's firm, Faber & Faber, in 1933; see p.231 n.24.