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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'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying to me - that it was I who was guilty of severing the...Ralph Glasser Lilian Glasser[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tears cold against my face. Often, reading her carefully...Ralph Glasser Rachel [letters from Glasser's aunt]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special shock, for to my amazement I had difficulty decipher...Ralph Glasser Mr Glasser[letters to his son, Ralph]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised...Ralph Glasser Pierre RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1900-1945'Towards the end of the war I would receive a letter in her tiny, rounded hand, one of those wartime "pre-mission" letters, intended for onward transmission only if the w...Ralph Glasser Rachel [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship, which would have been comic in less traumatic cont...Ralph Glasser Victor Gollancz"Let my people go": some practical proposals for d...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'An exception [to the intellectual triviality Glasser found at Oxford], far from generously recognised, was R.G. Collingwood in his luminous exposition of the proper busi...Ralph Glasser R.G. CollingwoodSpeculum Mentis, or the Map of KnowledgePrint: Book
1900-1945'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she mu... [n/a][Intelligence lists of communists]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thi...Ralph Glasser [n/a][Oxford Finals Class Lists]Print: Poster
1900-1945'When fairly launched into a subject, especially in a formal lecture in his favourite field, French political thought, these disquieting elements faded; and words and cad...Ralph Glasser Harold Joseph Laski[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use one must "Listen to the still, small voice within you....Ralph Glasser Harold Joseph Laski[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with t...Ralph Glasser [unknown][poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Convert (?) Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new stories in the vol:[...] I send it on now. E.G[arnett]. th...Joseph Conrad Richard` GarnettThe Twilight of the Gods and Other tales Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corre...Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant Stories from de Maupassant [English title] Manuscript: Proofs
1900-1945' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable reference to the tempi passati. As to the book itself no ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBernal Diaz de Castillo: Being Some Account of Him...Print: Book


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