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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatted till 1/2-past three, W[illiam]. in his dressing-g...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 5 October 1800: 'Coleridge read a 2nd time Christabel; we had increasing pleasure. A delicious morning.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christabel.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge] .....Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeversesManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899"The son of a shipwright, [Hall] Caine had been largely dependent upon public sources [in particuarly the Free Library, Liverpool] to satisfy his appetite for knowledge ....Hall Caine Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to...Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Remorse? had incited; and he had prepared a retaliation...Charles Maturin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabel and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1800-1849Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works, in letter to Coleridge: "'I wish every book I have ...Charles Lamb Samuel Taylor Coleridgeannotations to Samuel Daniel's poetryManuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRhyme of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Samuel Taylor Coleridge[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence ...John Clare Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems on Various SubjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems extracts]Print: Book


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