WMR Trelawney journal part 3

Overview

Date	1882-08-05
Publication	Athenaeum
Topic	WMR Trelawney journal part 3
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Subject	literature
Keywords	Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits
Standards	journal entries
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Annotation details

82 August 5 Athenaeum

Topic:

Edward John Trelawny talks journal from April 29, 1873 to August 13, 1881.

Citation:

Rossetti, William M. "Talks with Trelawny." Athenaeum (August 5, 1882): 176. Web. 21 September 2011.

Summary:

This essay covers the final third of Rossetti's collection of journal entries related to his conversations with Edward John Trelawny, concluding with the notice of Trelawny's death. The two discuss more artifacts and letters related to Shelley and Byron, Swinburne and Blake are discussed; Rossetti buys the Shelley sofa from Trelawny, has it refurbished and restored to the condition it was in when Shelley used it-then Rossetti discovers that the sofa is too large for his home. Trelawny's decline and death are annotated in succeeding entries.

See also part one and part two of this series.

Mode:

historian, journalist

Keywords:

Edward John Trelawny journal, historical account

Standards of Judgment:

historical records, first-person recollections

References:

Swinburne, Edward John Trelawny, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Col. De Bathe, Miss Curran, Harriet Shelley

Rhetoric:

definitive

Writing technique/tone:

dated journal; brief