unknown

Reading experience

Identifer:

Evidence

Source

Text being read

EuRED : text status

EuRED : text form

EuRED : text provenance

Reader(s) and listener(s)

Reader

Details of the reading experience

Date of Reading Experience

Time of Reading Experience

EuRED : experience type

EuRED : experience frequency

Place of reading experience

EuRED : emotions

EuRED : intensity

EuRED : environment

EuRED : lighting

EuRED : testimony

EuRED : reliability

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The Brownings' Correspondence
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          <persName>
            <forename>Homer</forename>
            <surname/>
          </persName>
        </author>
        <title>unknown</title>
      </titleStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <biblStruct>
          <monogr>
            <author>
              <persName>
                <forename/>
                <surname/>
              </persName>
            </author>
            <title>The Brownings' Correspondence</title>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson</publisher>
              <pubPlace>Winfield</pubPlace>
              <date>1984</date>
            </imprint>
            <availability/>
            <biblScope/>
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      </notesStmt>
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            <forename/>
            <surname/>
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          <persName>
            <forename/>
            <surname/>
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    <experienceDesc>
      <experience ref="ukred-16090">
        <respStmt resp="submitter">
          <resp>submitted by</resp>
          <persName>
            <forename>Jenny</forename>
            <surname>McAuley</surname>
          </persName>
          <address>
            <address_line/>
          </address>
          <email>jennymcauley@hotmail.com</email>
        </respStmt>
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        <date from="1817-03-06" to="1818-03-06" cert="unknown">Mar 6 1817 - Mar 6 1818</date>
        <time/>
        <reader>
          <persName>
            <forename>Elizabeth</forename>
            <surname>Barrett</surname>
          </persName>
          <sex>F</sex>
          <age>Child (0-17)</age>
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          <education scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/education"/>
          <birth>1806-03-06</birth>
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          <country>England</country>
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        </reader>
        <listener/>
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          <location>
            <country>England</country>
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          <author>
            <persName>
              <forename>Homer</forename>
              <surname/>
            </persName>
          </author>
          <title>unknown</title>
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        </textRead>
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          <experienceType scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/experience_type" ref="EXT13">Unknown</experienceType>
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          <expFrequency scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/experience_frequency" ref="EXF3">Unknown</expFrequency>
          <note>Evidence from Elizabeth Barrett's 'Glimpses into My Own Life and Literary Character' (composed 1820-21).

Not clear whether Pope's translation of the Odyssey and/or the Iliad referred to.

</note>
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          <ptr target="ukred-16090">"During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced!  During this dangerous period I was from home &amp; the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem ""The Battle of Marathon"" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I 
considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph &amp; read first my own Poem &amp; afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense &amp; mortifying inferiority --

"My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt &amp; anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! &amp; I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer.  I read &amp; longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties &amp; fresh enchantments". </ptr>
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