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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'William Soutar [unknown][ballads]Unknown
1900-1945'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have still 30 pages of supplement - but last night saw th...William Soutar ChambersTwentieth Century DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had ...William Soutar John BuchanThe Northern MusePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my p...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot sat...William Soutar F Yeats-BrownBengal LancerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob and the stealing of Esau's birthright - she suddenly l...Evelyn Soutar [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a l...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Edmund Blunden [ed]An Anthology of War PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Wilfred OwenStrange MeetingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Siegfried Loraine Sassoon[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual li...William Soutar Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'When looking at Hacker's "Annunciation" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to L-. Afterwards, from Jung, I learned how much symbo...William Soutar C.J. JungPsychology of the UnconsciousPrint: Book
1900-1945'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good ...William Soutar [n/a]Glasgow Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read "Poems 1909-1925" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to name it when Moll asked what book I'd like. I am af...William Soutar T.S. EliotPoems 1909-1925Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.'William Soutar Karl MarxCapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Mur...William Soutar [n/a]New BritainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After Strange Gods", is almost priggish in tone; and sligh...William Soutar T.S. EliotAfter Strange GodsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one is tempted to question if they are worth all the bot...William Soutar William SoutarThe Solitary WayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.'William Soutar William SoutarjournalManuscript: Codex


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