Record Number: 20779

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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

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Oxford

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Douglas

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Johnson

Title:

London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20779

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

n/a

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: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Originally published 1791.