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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Huon de Bordeaux'Print: Book
1800-1849'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I mean to say now that I have read his "Fairie Queen"; b...Emily Shore Edmund Spenser'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I percieve that Mr More's hymn to the Evening star is perf...James Hogg More'Hymn to Hesperus'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury'Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer'Hymn to Mercury'Print: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Charles Baudelaire'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me, I love me, my picture's on the shelf, You may not ...Edward Morgan Forster 'I love me' (song lyric)Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from...Helen Rawlings John Keats'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr. B. B. Popplewell rose to propose “the health of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative members of the House of Commons,” and after eulogizing the pu...Benjamin Briggs Popplewell Robert Story'I was bred in a cot' from Songs and Lyrical PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'I Went into the Fields'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to F...Harriet Countess Granville Schiller'Ideale'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to F...Harriet Countess Granville Schiller'Ideale'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simplicity appealed strongly to adolescent romanticism. Th...Vero Walter Garratt Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Idylls of the King'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If that high world -- which lies beyond Our own, survi...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'If that high world'Unknown
1800-1849'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'If That High World' OR Hebrew MelodiesUnknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknown'Impressions of Leave'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Muriel Bowman-Smith Robert Browning'In a gondola'Print: Book
1800-1849'Lift up thine eyes afflicted soul, ... James Montgomery'Bowly groupJames Montgomery'In Bereavement' AND 'Forget-Me-Not'Print: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849		Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthian...Hugh Stuart Boyd St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book


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