Record Number: 25622
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Mr S- came in before 2.0 and gave me an interesting reading - here and there - from Dixon's "Hellas Revisited". Now and then he would mouth a passage from the Greek and the Latin and our eyes would meet in wondering approval - "That's great", we would say simultaneously - equally lost in admiration and translation.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:16 Jun 1930
Country:Scotland
Timeevening
Place:city: Perth
specific address: 27 Wilson Street
location in dwelling: in bed
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Apr 1898
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:poet
Religion:atheist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Hellas Revisited
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:25622
Source:William Soutar
Editor:Alexander Scott
Title:Diaries of a dying man
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:1954
Vol:n/a
Page:22
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Soutar, Alexander Scott (ed.), Diaries of a dying man, (Edinburgh, 1954), p. 22, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25622, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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