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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'Wilfred Owen W.W. GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Wilfred Owen Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Siegfried sassoon Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by mili...Wilfred Owen Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Bion of Smyrna'Epitaph on Adonis'Print: Book
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Moschus'Epitaph on Bion'Print: Book
1900-1945'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan docume...Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whenever we felt too tired even to manufacture the ribald witticisms of the Going-Down play, we took it in turns to read Professor A. F. Pollard's ironic "History of Eng...Vera Brittain and her fellow studentsA.F. PollardHistory of EnglandPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and difficult period, I wonder, or has some incisive and ...Vera Brittain VinagradoffThe Growth of the ManorPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published "Back...Vera Brittain George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of ...Vera Brittain unknownThe Evolution of World PeacePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Cathedral", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1900-1945'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells, I had come to realise history as the whole story of...Vera Brittain F.S. MarvinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a week later another death occurred which seemed, to ...Vera Brittain newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be exact! They were quite nice to us in a leading articl...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", which had recently been published, I had read with a d...Vera Brittain Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'Vera Brittain W.N.P. BarbellionunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" -...Vera BrittainThe Dark TidePrint: Book
1900-1945'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern Writers on Modern Writers". When he invited her to ...Winifred Holtby Virginia WoolfunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "and I turn to think ... of you reading it to enlighte...Frederick the Great of Prussia Testament PolitiquePrint: Book


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