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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Stefan George'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'Print: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Charles Baudelaire'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')Print: Book
1900-1945'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons...Edward Morgan Forster Van Wyck BrooksThe Ordeal of Mark TwainPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage opening 'Keep men and things apart; guard against the ...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the keener / Mood shall be the more / As our might lessens...Edward Morgan Forster Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History (vol I)Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there is a drop Take up the cup and drink the drop And p...Edward Morgan Forster A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Henri-Frederic AmielFragments d'un Journal IntimePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, accompanied by comment 'His s...Edward Morgan Forster Charles WatertonWanderings in South AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel HenleyAppendix no. 2Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owne...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinIntroduction to Notes on Turner drawingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces, it might have influenced me less, but I remained i...Vera Brittain Mary WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1900-1945'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning ...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was puzzled by the shadow that clung to the name of Oscar...Vera Brittain Oscar WildeplaysPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though t...Vera Brittain George EliotRomolaUnknown
1900-1945'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in my hands.'Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me than the battles between giants and mortals in the ...Vera Brittain Andrew LangAndrew Lang's Fairy BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'Vera Brittain George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetry was the only form of literature that I could read ...Vera Brittain William WordsworthpoetryPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to discourage my hysterical pursuit of elusive definitions....Vera Brittain Plato'Apologia' and 'Meno'Unknown


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