Record Number: 28985

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two volumes of chaucer and a new work of Tom Moores call'd 'Tom Cribb's memorial to Congress' - nothing in it - These are trifles...

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

12 Mar 1819

Country:

United Kingdom

Time

evening

Place:

city: London

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 Keats

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

31 Oct 1795

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Country of Experience:

United Kingdom

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Moore

Title:

Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28985

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

John Keats

Title:

John Keats collection A.L.S.

Location:

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

Call No:

MS Keats 1

Page/Folio:

1.53

Additional Information:

Keats's Poetry and Prose, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox (2009), p. 318.

Citation:

John Keats, John Keats collection A.L.S., Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, MS Keats 1 , 1.53, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28985, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

Read by candle and fire light.