Record Number: 24898

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all these sensations in a twentieth part of the time I wrote them in. how can motion be thought? & yet how can thought be any thing else? is it not as difficult to conceive colour as nothing but motion — & this is demonstrated by Darwin. — & what consequence is it what it is! all useful knowledge is easily acquired.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: 12 Jul 1795

Country:

England

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Southey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

12 Aug 1774

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

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:

Erasmus Darwin

Title:

Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life

Genre:

Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24898

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

"The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 131. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 27 April 2009.

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

"The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 131. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 27 April 2009. , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24898, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None