Record Number: 19822
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Dec 1940 and 8 Jan 1941
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:
Reading Group: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writers
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Epistle
Genre:Classics, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPrivately printed
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19822
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:248
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 248, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19822, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes: 'Epistle was a privately printed poem, based on a translation of bits of Horace and composed in the form of questions and answers' (p.248 n.1).