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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‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’Hartley Coleridge Robert PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descending, sat and smiled.' signed 'aunt a.' 'quarry bank j...Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Robert PollokThe course of timeUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert RobinsonMiscellaneous Works of Robert RobinsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend br...Robert Southey Robert RobinsonEcclesiastical ResearchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out to him from England. He particularly resented, it s...Victor unknown Robert ServiceRhymes of a Red Cross ManPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founder of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, i...James Boswell Robert Sibbald[manuscript Life]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'Sarah Harriet Burney Robert South[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning sev...Samuel Johnson Robert South[Sermons]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production I.G. Robert SoutheyLife of WesleyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am ...William Wordsworth Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyChronicle of the Cid, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Waterloo in verse: 'Southey is a Fellow labourer. I hav...William Wordsworth Robert Southey[Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The]Unknown
1700-1799' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me about two years ago two books of this poem which I admir...James Losh Robert SoutheyMadocManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to "a no...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert SoutheyletterPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLetters from SpainPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to...Edmund Gosse Robert SoutheyWorks (poetical?)Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with reques...Charlotte Bronte Robert Southeyletter to Charlotte BronteManuscript: Letter


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