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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'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...'Arthur Benson Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings bac...Virginia Woolf Robert BridgesunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" th...Joseph Conrad Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...John James Cooper Robert Bridges Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BridgesThe Testament of BeautyUnknown
1900-1945'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's The Spirit of Man, sent to me by my cousin Viole...Anthony Eden Robert BridgesThe Spirit of ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Robert BridgesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week I got out of the library the works of our present poet laureate, Bridges, who did not impress me a bit.'Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way, you should get that "Spirit of Man", Bridge's anthology, that everyone is talking about. Mrs K. has it from the library at present: it is one of the pretti...Clive Staples Lewis Robert BridgesThe Spirit of Man: an Anthology in English and Fre...Print: Book
1900-1945'The literary event of the week is our respected laureate's ode in the Times Literary Supplement: truly a most remarkable production, though I am afraid like the honest...Clive Staples Lewis Robert BridgesOde on the Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespea...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Well … our gallant regiment … have been in it a damn sight more than ever they expected, by the Lord. We are hardened veterans, fed up to the neck, muddy to the eyes...Ivor Bertie Gurney Robert Bridges[Sonnet on Lord Kitchener]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Today is changeable, rather cold and windy … I hardly think of music at all, but stick to books. My friend Harvey, who is now a lootenant [sic] in this battalion has...Ivor Bertie Gurney Robert BridgesThe Spirit of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticking, as I always do, in a Zola.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Bridges, ed.[possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in Engl...Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions r...Alice Foley Robert Browning'Bishop Blougram's Apology'Print: Book
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions ...Alice Foley Robert Browning'The Ring and the Book'Print: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Robert Browning Print: Book
1800-1849[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'Caroline Clive Robert BrowningBells and PomegranatesPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l...James Elroy Flecker Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that h...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book


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