Record Number: 32363

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I hope you have read your Times Literary Supplement this week: do you see that the commonwealth of letters is richer by a great new poet? Now let the stars retire for the sun has risen: let Hemans and M'Kittrick Ros be silent, for Mr. Little has come! It is really too good to be missed. I love the fine impassioned address to the sea.... "Oh, wave! Thy clemency is open To shrewd suspicion". What melody! What masterly phrasing and gorgeous imagery!.... I for one had sooner walk on the earth than soar on any Pegasus which bears such a disquieting resemblance to a rocking horse.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

9 Mar 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

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:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

'An Uncertain Voice'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Review of a book of poetry, including quotations

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

The Times Literary Supplement (9 March 1916), p. 116, review of 'Thermopylae and other poems' by Philip Francis Little

Provenance

owned
probably owned by the Kirkpatrick household

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32363

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

172

Additional Comments:

From a letter to his father, 10 March 1916. Felicia Dorothea Hemans and Amanda McKittrick Ros were 'two terrible poets', Ros being known as 'the World's Worst Writer'. (From Walter Hooper's footnote to this letter.)

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 172, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32363, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None