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Record Number: 20140


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'etais jeune!" But then i am not Ronsard! I never, indeed, remember to have read anything of R's, except that...'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 28 Aug 1918

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ford Madox Ford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

17 Dec 1873

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Pierre de Ronsard

Title:

Sonnets pour Helene

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20140

Source:

Print

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Editor:

Sondra J. Stang

Title:

Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The

Place of Publication:

Bloomington

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

9-10

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The, (Bloomington, 1993), p. 9-10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20140, accessed: 22 November 2024


Additional Comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor, Karen Cochran. The quotation is a not very accurate version of part of sonnet XXIV

   
   
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