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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundUnknown
1800-1849'Copy the Witch of Atlas'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Witch of Atlas, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840: ''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I have finished Shelley's volumes which, if it were not f...Elizabeth Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyEssays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Frag...Print: Book
1800-1849'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyDefence of Poetry, AManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read S's Adonais.'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Adonais'Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cy...Print: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to a SkylarkPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyAlastorPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of Islam (Canto I)Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of Unive...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'... I read seriously only on week-ends.... "Comus" being finished, its place was taken by Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" which I got half through. It is an amazing wor...Clive Staples Lewis Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually over lapping [sic]. If a new poem, what should I say? I...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyMont BlancPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. How delicate & pure & musical & uncorrupt he & Colerid...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Bes...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Bes...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe Shelley'Marianne's Dream'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845: 'I have read to the last line of your Rosicrucian; & my scepticism grew & grew through Hume's p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleySt. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a G...Print: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been reading together Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the ev...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPercy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book


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