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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-...Joan Evans Matthew ArnoldpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Matthew ArnoldThe Forsaken MermanPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, except M. Arnold's New Poems, which of course you wil...Henry James Matthew ArnoldNew PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of Pompe...Mary Augusta Ward Matthew ArnoldEssays in CriticismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it wi...Harriet Martineau Matthew Arnold'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'.George Eliot [pseud] Matthew Arnold[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Matthew ArnoldTristram and IseultPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...Edwin Muir Matthew Arnold[selection of poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Adelaide Morland Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Edminson Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Burgess Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.Bertha Pollard Matthew Arnold'Rugby Chapel'Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.John Luther Hawkins Matthew Arnold'Dover Beach'Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.Florence Hawkins Matthew Arnold'Forsaken Merman, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my w...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Matthew ArnoldunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'Oscar Wilde Matthew ArnoldSelected Poems of Matthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at em...Virginia Woolf Matthew ArnoldThyrsisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold'The Sick King in Bokhara'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold'The Forsaken Merman'Print: Book


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