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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Socie...William Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightProgress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, TheUnknown
1700-1799'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses f...William Wordsworth David HerdAncient and Modern Scottish PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... 'William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousan...William Wordsworth Thomas HolcroftMan of Ten Thousand, ThePrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal'...William Wordsworth JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1700-1799William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly...Francis Wrangham JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ...Dorothy Wordsworth Select Collection of Old PlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... 'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerPicture, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... 'William Wordsworth MoschusLament for BionUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... 'William Wordsworth BionDeath of AdonisUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'William Wordsworth PetrarchSe la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)Unknown
1700-1799'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... 'William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1700-1799Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the s...William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1700-1799'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.'William Wordsworth George SandysRelation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. ...Print: Book
1700-1799'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Marine...William Wordsworth George ShelvockeVoyage Round the World by the Way of the Great Sou...Print: Book
1700-1799'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first ...William Wordsworth Charlotte Smith[sonnets (two)]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three other papers of the Spectator, into Italian" [Prose W...William Wordsworth Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, ...William Wordsworth VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in su...William Wordsworth VirgilGeorgicsUnknown


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