Record Number: 26974

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him crawled'. Yes, it was like that. Then we hit an air pocket and we seemed to be dropping alarmingly, and I forgot about Tennyson.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1910 and 1 Jan 1914

Country:

England

Time

daytime: school hours

Place:

city: Berkhamsted
specific address: Berkhamsted School

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:

Listener:

Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1897

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

schoolboy

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

classmates

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Tennyson

Title:

'The Eagle: A Fragment'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown
School textbook - probably owned.

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26974

Source:

Print

Author:

Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Schoolboy into War

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

n/a

Page:

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh, Schoolboy into War, (London, 1978), http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26974, accessed: 22 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

This is an autobiographical report (1978) of a reminiscence (1917) of a school reading experience.