Record Number: 31782

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

7. Isabel Talor read “La Belle dame sans merci”[.] Some discussion followed in which what Knox Taylor described as the “sensuous melancholy” of Keats was contrasted unfavourably with the keen virility of Shelley. But warmed by some excellent coffee, from the depths of a luxurious settee, some members were heard to murmur that there was a lot to be said for the things of the senses____

[...]


[signed] Howard R. Smith
13/12/40'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

18 Nov 1940

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Isabel Taylor

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Keats

Title:

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31782

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

79–82

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 79–82, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31782, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).