Record Number: 20779
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a student at Oxford, and remembers well the effect which "London" produced. Every body was delighted with it; and there being no name to it, the first buzz of the literary circles was "here is an unknown poet, greater even than Pope".'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1738 and 31 Dec 1738
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Oxford
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:14 Jul 1721
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:student, later bishop
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:Scotland
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:London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20779
Source:James Boswell
Editor:R.W. Chapman
Title:Life of Johnson
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:n/a
Page:92
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Boswell , R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson, (Oxford, 1980), p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20779, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Originally published 1791.