Record Number: 33991
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think his last volume [Yarrow Revisted, and Other Poems] poor and degenerate. This is, indeed, nothing like the Ode on Immortality, or the finer parts of the Excursion, there is neither the same profundity of thought nor the same solar warmth of feeling - but there is a vein of tenderness, sweetness, and beauty which is almost new. ... I do wish, however, that there had been a little less of Lowther Castle, and that he had not call’d poor old Lady Lonsdale a Nymph.’
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1835 and 18 Jan 1836
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:19 Sep 1796
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet, essayist, teacher, biographer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLongman, 1835
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33991
Source:Hartley Coleridge
Editor:Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs
Title:Letters of Hartley Coleridge
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:186-7
Additional Comments:
Letter written to 'Mother and Sister' (Sarah and Sara Coleridge), but addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at No. 27 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, from Grasmere, dated ‘Jan. 18, 1836. Raining Cats and Dogs’. Editors’ footnote on ‘Nymph’: ‘See “Lines written in the album of the Countess of Lonsdale, nov. 5, 1834”.’
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 186-7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33991, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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