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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'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioGioas re de GiudaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioLa Clemenza di TitoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioCatone in UticaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioAttilio RegoloPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioCiro riconosciutoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioZenobiaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) vo...Jane Baillie Welsh Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio)UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pietro Antonio SerassiLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pietro Antonio SerassiLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Pindar OdesPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....Alfred Tennyson Pindar  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
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Plato RepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Plato  Print: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Plato  Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.'Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.'Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'.Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico. [...] 'Friday August 11th. Read Symposi...Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumUnknown
1800-1849'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.' Claire Clairmont Plato PhaedonPrint: Book


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