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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
 
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including 'V. of W. gets out of his [depth] 1/2 w...Edward Morgan Forster Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.Edward Morgan Forster Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927): 'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanhope. Copyright? What is copyright to me? I am a Beerb...Edward Morgan Forster Max BeerbohmLetter to Lytton StracheyManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of Dryden [sic] 'Reading these Epistles which have no...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenEpistlesPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, accompanying this with comments including: '...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MannThe Magic MountainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only by an ill-bred-and-natured journalist Priestley in t...Edward Morgan Forster J. B. Priestleyarticle on E. M. ForsterPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E. Wortham's biography of him, on the potential of th...Edward Morgan Forster H. E. WorthamOscar BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me, I love me, my picture's on the shelf, You may not ...Edward Morgan Forster 'I love me' (song lyric)Print: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to follow [...] [literature] has committed itself too dee...Edward Morgan Forster E. M. Forstershort storiesUnknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one l...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLe Desert de l'AmourPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one l...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLa PharisiennePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonStars and AtomsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life from Thomas Deloney, The Gentle Craft (Pt. II).Edward Morgan Forster Thomas DeloneyThe Gentle Craft part IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 November 1760 to George Montagu, describing the funer...Edward Morgan Forster Horace WalpoleLetter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760Print: Book
1900-1945'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They deg...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonThe Nature of the Physical WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. T...Edward Morgan Forster A. N. WhiteheadScience and the Modern WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz, The Kalahari and its Native Races (1928) ...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest Hubert Lewis SchwarzThe Kalahari and its Native RacesPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible...Edward Morgan Forster T. S. Eliot'Tradition and the Individual Talent'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'Edward Morgan Forster Anton Chekhov'Uprooted'Print: Book


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