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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'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestSolitudeUnknown
1900-1945'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Naples is one of the most terrifying things that I have ...Harold Nicolson John KeatsLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translati...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligenc...Vita Sackville-West Edmund WilsonThrough the Embassy Window; Harold NicolsonPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon...Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there ever been a writer with more economy of phrase, or wi...Edith Sitwell John AubreyThe Scandals and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, although your anthology and my second, and third(forthco...Edith Sitwell John HaywardNineteenth Century Poetry - An AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things that were ever written. I would rather have written "...Ford Madox Ford Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'et...Ford Madox Ford Pierre de RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had read the British weekly which says "Mr H's literary p...soldier [unknown][a review of Ford's work]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'.Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford[unknown article in French]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen [unknown][book on wild flowers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't kno...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspaper classifieds]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, ...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a][press cuttings - subject unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Clifford Bax Ford Madox Ford[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Clifford Bax[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Phyllis Reid[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Phyllis Reid Phyllis Reid[a poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about "Poor old Phyllis & her poems!" Which led to demands to know how it ended. Whi...Phyllis Reid Ford Madox Ford[letter to Stella Bowen]Manuscript: Letter


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