Record Number: 952
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been "to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty..."'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1806 and 1846
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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:1806
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:circuit preacher
Religion:Methodist
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:952
Source:Jonathan Rose
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Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:32
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 32, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=952, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See Joseph Barker, 'The History and Confessions of a Man' (1846)
