Record Number: 29858
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my "John Clare"! He has the book yet for all I know [...].
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between May 1916 and Jun 1916
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Hinges, near Béthune
county: Nord
other location: farmhouse
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1 Nov 1896
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Army Officer and Poet
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsunknown
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:29858
Source:Edmund Blunden
Editor:n/a
Title:Undertones of War
Place of Publication:Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.)
Date of Publication:1982 (1928, 1937)
Vol:n/a
Page:40
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 40, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29858, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
It is not known what Blunden read on this occasion but it can be assumed that it was not John Clare's poems, which he may have read periodically up until that point in time.
