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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842: 'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great many thanks. 'The Tragedy will be considered prob...Elizabeth Barrett William WordsworthPoems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine Tennyson [...] But notwithstanding the poetry of the...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to hi...Elizabeth Barrett Sophocles'recognised fragments of Sophocles'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to hi...Elizabeth Barrett George Burgescriticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Soph...Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett unknownA Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of NorwichPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843: 'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can prick so int...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Hood'The Song of the Shirt'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besi...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Rogers'Recent Developments of Puseyism'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besi...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington Macaulay'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Ea...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert ChambersVestiges of the Natural History of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'.Elizabeth Barrett Robert ChalmersVestiges of the Natural HIstory of CreationPrint: 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
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'. Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong...Elizabeth Barrett John KenyonpoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838: 'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discu...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon"The Greek Wife"Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding powe...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me to have had too wave...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [italics]whole book[end italics] of which I never saw b...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Wadsworth LongfellowunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole politician .. as he gathe...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addressed by H. Martineau to Moxon the publisher, .. to ...John Kenyon Harriet Martineauextract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting sea...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Dr Parr'works'Print: Book


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