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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
 
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc'The Dons', 'The Poor of London'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon esti...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrow'The Doom of Cheynholme'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him craw...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Alfred Tennyson'The Eagle: A Fragment'Print: Book
1850-1899'My dear Henley, I have just read your Crnhll with genuine delight and admiration.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Early Life of J-F Miller', in 'Cornhill Magaz...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of...William Wordsworth William Wordsworth'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water L...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Andrew Marvell'The Emigrant's Song'Unknown
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Walter Bagehot Walter Bagehot'The emotion of Conviction'Unknown
1850-1899'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudy...Alfred Tennyson Rudyard Kipling'The English Flag'Unknown
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley John Keats'The Eve of St Agnes'Print: Book
1800-1849'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].Mary Groom Thomas Moore'The Fickleness of Love'Unknown
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
1800-1849'To Fanny' 'Oh! Name him not unless it be/...' 'T Haynes Bayly'Carey/Maingay groupNathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly'The Forsaken to her Father'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Gardener's Daughter'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912: 'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] I thought it very good, and it added to the other qu...Edward Morgan Forster Richard Barham Middleton'The Ghost Ship'
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster F. L. Lucas'The Graces'Print: Book
1850-1899'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair Maid of Astolat," and read aloud "The Grandmother."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Grandmother'Unknown
1700-1799'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldo...Samuel Johnson Robert Blair'The Grave, a Poem'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldo...James Boswell Robert Blair'The Grave, a Poem'Print: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

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Mary Pollard Mary Russell Mitford'The Gypsy', from Our VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 August 1843: 'Miss Mitford read to me -- and with what a melodious feeling she reads poetry -- your "House of Clouds."...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Barrett'The House of Clouds'Unknown


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