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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'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought bu...James Hogg Henry Scott Ridell'Ode to the Harp of Zion'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt John Keats'Ode to the Nightingale'Print: Book
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
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:] 'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your charming Ode, which breathes all the spirit of that wil...Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Vesey'Ode'Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:] 'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming Odes of Miss Mulso's, and admire them more and more...Thomas Edwards Hester Mulso'Odes'Unknown
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare William Collins Collins'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare John Ogilvie'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives her long poem entitled 'Offley Park'] This little poem will be easily seen to have been written by way of Flattery to Sir Thomas Salusbury with whom I ...Thomas Salusbury Hester Lynch Salusbury'Offley Park'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines beginning 'Oh, could we read on every brow/ The inward grief in silence bred...' At the b... 'Oh could we read on every brow'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [...] so characteristic of you [...] that I was sorely ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Oh to be in England'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford 'old English [i.e. Renaissance] drama'Print: Book
1800-1849The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses ...Anne Lister 'Old Maids'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876: 'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don Quixote and Sancho. I shall write you out a [italic...Edward Fitzgerald 'old Spanish Romances'Print: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord Byron', beginning 'Ill-fated Heart! and can it be,/ Th...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken'Unknown
1800-1849'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's PilgrimaUnknown
1800-1849Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843: 'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They were written by Robert when quite a child. I once ha...Robert Browning, Sr Robert Browning, Jr'On Bonaparte'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Hope' 'Heber' 'Reflected in the lakes of love, ...'Beanlands groupReginald Heber'On Heavenly and Earthly Hope' OR ['Hope']Unknown
1800-1849'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of studen...George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others Hartley'on Man'Print: Book
1900-1945'St Augustine, Some scattered notes. 'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on the Pelagians. What he thinks is wrong in copulation ...Edward Morgan Forster St Augustine'On Marriage and Concupiscence'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843: 'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity in her reasoning, for the learning, energy & impart...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Coleridge'On Rationalism'Print: Book


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