Record Number: 19495
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 5 Mar 1813
Country:England
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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:24 Dec 1754
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:clergyman and poet
Religion:Christian
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:Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19495
Source:George Crabbe
Editor:Thomas Faulkner
Title:Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1985
Vol:n/a
Page:101
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, (Oxford, 1985), p. 101, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19495, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott
