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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'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and ...Susan Owen John Oxenham [pseud.][light novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [texts on science / religion debate]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [a Christian response to Darwinism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen John KeatsLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen [biography of Shelley]Print: Book
1900-1945'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in October 1911 when he happened to buy a book of new ...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroBefore Dawn: Poems and ImpressionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touch...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translation of a [italics] ballade elegiaque [end italics] fr...Wilfred Owen Laurent TailhadePoemes elegiaquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Alfred de VignyChattertonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Ernest RenanSouvenirs d'enfance et de jeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertLa Tentation de saint AntoinePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertSalammboPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tow...Vera Brittain Robert BrowningChilde Roland to the Dark Tower CamePrint: Book
1900-1945'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee o...Vera Brittain Report by the Joint War Committee of the British R...Print: official report
1900-1945'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein," in his volume of poems "A Highland Regiment", which...Vera Brittain E.A. MackintoshCha Till Maccruimein Print: Book
1900-1945'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe Dark Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our...Vera Brittain Owen SeamanThe Soul of a Nation Print: Serial / periodical, magazine


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