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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'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good , but is not "fort".' Thence follows five lines of m...Joseph Conrad Marcelle TinayreLa Maison du PechéPrint: Book
1900-1945'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. "I was on a great [George] Moore kick at that time",...Philip Larkin George Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Henry Green[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Virginia WoolfWaves, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Julian HallSenior Commoner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Katherine Mansfield[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Christopher IsherwoodAll the ConspiratorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin William Wordsworth'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Henry Newbolt'Drake's Drum'Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenOrators, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenLook, Stranger!Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenJournal of an Airman, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly published "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd", seemed to him too ful...Philip Larkin Vernon WatkinsBallad of the Mari Lwyd, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, yo...Jewish residents of the Gorbals [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mr Glasser [unknown][books in English]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mrs Glasser [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mrs Glasser [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book


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