Record Number: 33844

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Diary entry. March 5th, 1832: "As soon as I cd. get into Mr. Boyd’s room, I went there. He made me read his preface & some additional translations. He had had my extracts read to him. After some verbal criticisms, he observed with regard to the blank verses that some of the lines were beautiful, some poor: a circumstance for which he did not so much blame me, as Aeschylus. I could not be otherwise in any literal translation of the Prometheus. With regard to the lyrical portion of the extracts, they seemed to him “rather poo”, considering they were my writing –but then “the short time you were in writing them”! – He asked me to let him have some other extracts –the speech about Typhon*, & another choral ode, -but he did not press me, so I need not presser. “ anything [been] fixed about your going away?” No indeed! — nothing! "

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

5 Mar 1832

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Wellington Heath, Ledbury, Malvern Hills
county: Herefordshire
specific address: Hope End

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:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

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:

Aeschylus

Title:

Prometheus Bound

Genre:

Classics, Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Aeschylus. Prometheus Unbound. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's translation

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33844

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson

Title:

Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Place of Publication:

Athens, OH

Date of Publication:

1969

Vol:

n/a

Page:

222

Additional Comments:

Diary entry. March 5th, 1832

Citation:

Philip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson (ed.), Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Athens, OH, 1969), p. 222, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33844, accessed: 13 March 2025

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Additional Comments:

- Editors' notes to this quotations: * The reference to Typhon refers to Prometheus Bound, ed. Cit. pp. 22-24. * Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857), Bishop of London, edited five plays of Aeschylus. The entry of 8 March indicates that EBB borrowed Aeschyli Promtheus Vinctus (Cambridge, 1810).