Record Number: 891
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy. You don?t know where to put it. Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested. And yet a poet wrote it. When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus. Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh.
Century:1800-1849
Date:19 Aug 1831
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Ledbury
specific address: Hope End
(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:Female
Date of Birth:6 Mar 1806
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Poet
Religion:Evangelical Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Endymion
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:891
Source:Elizabeth Barrett
Editor:Elizabeth Berridge
Title:The Barretts at Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1974
Vol:n/a
Page:142
Additional Comments:
Diary entry for 19 August 1831
Citation:
Elizabeth Barrett, Elizabeth Berridge (ed.), The Barretts at Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (London, 1974), p. 142, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=891, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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