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Record Number: 21447


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never heard. I have searched for it in vain in a little three volume edition of Ovid which I have here, but that does not contain this poem'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1883 and 14 Nov 1883

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Alfred Tennyson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

6 Aug 1809

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Ovid

Title:

works

Genre:

Classics, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

3 volumes

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

21447

Source:

Print

Author:

Hallam Tennyson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1897

Vol:

1

Page:

305 n.2

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 305 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21447, accessed: 23 March 2023


Additional Comments:

Malan had written to Tennyson asking whether he had imitated Statius, Ovid's "Epicedion," "The Sorrow of Arcadius Etruscus," or "Spring Stanzas ot Domitian," in composition of In Memoriam; see p.305 n.2 in source.

   
   
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