Record Number: 197
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in my back street urchin accents - of La Belly Dame Sans Murky, yet in Keats's chill little poem I seemed to sense some essence of the eternal ritual of romantic love. And Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" bowled me over. I read it again and again until I fairly lived in a world of "armies that clash by night" and stately weeping Queens. So the poets helped me escape the demands of communal living which now, at thirteen, were beginning to be intolerable to me'.
Century:Date:
Between 1928 and 1928
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Timen/a
Place:specific address: a catholic hostel
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1915
Socio-Economic Group:Servant
Occupation:servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:More d'Arthur
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
ProvenanceSubscription Library
Source Information:
Record ID:197
Source:Dorothy Burnham
Editor:n/a
Title:Through Dooms of Love
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1969
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Page:174
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Dorothy Burnham, Through Dooms of Love, (London, 1969), p. 174, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=197, accessed: 29 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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