Record Number: 33552
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where we refilled our water bottles [...] we talked with a wandering dervish, who strayed up to our camp carrying a sort of sceptre, surmounted by the extended hand of Ali in shining brass; we listened to a blind man chanting an interminable poem about hazrat-i-isa (his Majesty Jesus); we watched the procession of women going to the spring.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Apr 1926 and 30 Apr 1926
Country:Persia
Timedaytime
Place:city: Dehdez
county: Izeh County, Khuzestan Province
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
passive in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:9 Mar 1892
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Persia
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Other religious, Poetry, unknown (likely devotional) Persian poem on Jesus
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
almost certainly recited from memory
Source Information:
Record ID:33552
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:n/a
Title:Twelve Days in Persia
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2009
Vol:n/a
Page:73
Additional Comments:
Page references are from the 2009 edition published by I.B. Tauris. The book was first published by Hogarth in 1928.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days in Persia, (London, 2009), p. 73, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33552, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Although she uses the plural 'we', it's not clear how many members of Vita Sackville-West's heard the blind man reciting the unnamed devotional poem to Jesus.
