'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre'

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

Notes

How to cite this record

You can copy this item for personal use, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It cannot be used commercially without permission. Please ensure the following credit accompanies it:

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son
http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/dbworkshop/index.php/Detail/objects/82167
Accessed on 2022/08/18 18:28:00

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE TEI PUBLIC "customisation-tei/tei_readingExp.dtd" "">
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <author>
          <persName>
            <forename>Sir John</forename>
            <surname>Herschel</surname>
          </persName>
        </author>
        <title>'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre'</title>
      </titleStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <biblStruct>
          <monogr>
            <author>
              <persName>
                <forename>Hallam</forename>
                <surname>Tennyson</surname>
              </persName>
            </author>
            <title>Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by his Son</title>
            <imprint>
              <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
              <date>1897</date>
            </imprint>
            <availability/>
            <biblScope/>
          </monogr>
        </biblStruct>
      </sourceDesc>
      <notesStmt>
        <note>xml/ukred-23476.xml</note>
      </notesStmt>
    </fileDesc>
    <profileDesc>
      <correspDesc>
        <correspAction type="sending">
          <persName>
            <forename/>
            <surname/>
          </persName>
        </correspAction>
        <correspAction type="receiving">
          <persName>
            <forename/>
            <surname/>
          </persName>
        </correspAction>
      </correspDesc>
      <langUsage/>
    </profileDesc>
    <experienceDesc>
      <experience ref="ukred-23476">
        <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>
        <respStmt resp="editor"/>
        <date from="1862-05-01" to="1862-12-31">May 1 1862 - Dec 31 1862</date>
        <time/>
        <reader>
          <persName>
            <forename>Alfred</forename>
            <surname>Tennyson</surname>
          </persName>
          <sex>M</sex>
          <age>Adult (18-100+)</age>
          <occupation scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/occupation" ref="OCC1050101">Authors</occupation>
          <education scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/education"/>
          <birth>1809-08-06</birth>
          <country>England</country>
          <readerStatus scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/reader_status"/>
        </reader>
        <listener/>
        <place>
          <location>
            <district/>
          </location>
        </place>
        <textRead>
          <author>
            <persName>
              <forename>Sir John</forename>
              <surname>Herschel</surname>
            </persName>
          </author>
          <title>'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre'</title>
          <genre scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/genre" ref="GEN706">Classics</genre>
          <genre scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/genre" ref="GEN2">Poetry</genre>
          <textProvenance ref="TPR215" scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/text_provenance">Unknown</textProvenance>
          <textStatus ref="TST4" scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/text_status">Unknown</textStatus>
          <textForm scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/text_form" ref="TFO24">Serial/periodical</textForm>
          <origLanguage>
            <language/>
          </origLanguage>
          <textStatus scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/text_status"/>
        </textRead>
        <readingExp>
          <experienceType scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/experience_type" ref="EXT13">Unknown</experienceType>
          <posture scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/posture"/>
          <lighting scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/lighting"/>
          <environment scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/environment"/>
          <intensity scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/intensity"/>
          <emotion scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/emotion"/>
          <testimony scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/testimony"/>
          <sourceReliability scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/source_reliability"/>
          <expFrequency scheme="http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/thesaurus/experience_frequency" ref="EXF3">Unknown</expFrequency>
          <note/>
        </readingExp>
      </experience>
    </experienceDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <div type="volume" n="2">
        <p>
          <ptr target="ukred-23476">"The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning

"He ceased, and sea-like roar"d the Trojan host,

"ran: ""Some, and among these one at least of our best and greatest, have endeavoured to give us the Iliad in English hexameters, and by what appears to me their failure have gone far to prove the impossibility of the task [...]"" [...] This was written after reading Sir John Herschel"s ""Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre,"" Cornhill Magazine, May 1862."</ptr>
        </p>
      </div>
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>