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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenAn Essay of Heroic PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus ...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleRodogunePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Queen, regarding which Forster comments: 'Interesting...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenPreface, The Maiden QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, to which Forster refers as 'a charming and important...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage, to which Forster refers as 'Good tempered acco...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonLife of [Richard] SavagePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield).Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield).Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonPlan [for Dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Johnsonremarks on OthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'Edward Morgan Forster Walter Raleigh, ed.Johnson on ShakesparePrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as des...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftThe Battle of the BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as des...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is v...Edward Morgan Forster Nicolas BoileauL'Art PoetiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming...Edward Morgan Forster Dante AlighieriDe Vulgari EloquentiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Unknown
1900-1945Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from which cover topics including the writings of Pater, Kipl...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Letters of Henry James (vol.I)Print: Book
1900-1945'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they may bring the past when properly juxtaposed. How many...Edward Morgan Forster John AubreyThe Scandal and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in Voltaire, Des Singularites de la Nature (incorporati...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Des Singularites de la NaturePrint: Book


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