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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
 
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell...V.W. Garratt Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further under...V.W. Garratt Homer  Print: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Epictetus  Print: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Longinus  Print: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Plato DialoguesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)The Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dublin the other day. He knows it absolutely by heart, an...Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1900-1945'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin an... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson'The Lotus Eaters'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe Shelley'Ode to the West Wind'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Algernon Charles Swinburne'Atalanta in Calydon'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Wiliam Wordsworth'The Solitary Reaper'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing symbolist poetry himself for years without realisin...Edwin Muir C. Maurice BowraThe Heritage of SymbolismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Oliver Wendell HolmesAutocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John Gibson LockhartThe Life of ScottPrint: Book


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