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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting the actual contents. I can understand something of ...William Soutar William SoutarBrief WordsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily "course", to employ his own far too much over-work...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonSunset SongPrint: Book
1900-1945'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicati...William Soutar Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machi...William Soutar Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness abo...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonGrey GranitePrint: Book
1900-1945'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his "Red Scotland", which sounded quite co...Christopher Murray Grieve Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Red ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carr...William Soutar John Middleton MurrayKeats and ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been definitely exploited in his previous two collections; an...William Soutar Alfred Edward HousmanMore PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the "spiritual" type of women suggested...William Soutar H. ThomasAs It WasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on...William Soutar T.F. HendersonScottish Vernacular LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on...William Soutar Alexander HumeThe Day EstivallPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living...William Soutar Rudolph RoeberAnarcho-SyndicalismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar Tom ScottOn my 21st BirthdayManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar G.S. Fraser[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the rel...William Soutar David GuestDialectical MaterialismPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the rel...William Soutar T.S. EliotThe Idea of Christian SocietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Scots Literary Tradition" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes near enough the truth in its analysis of the frustra...William Soutar John SpiersThe Scots Literary TraditionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakesp...William Soutar A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; and inscribed on it by him is Marston's line: "I fear...William Soutar W.S. GrahamCage Without GrievancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himsel...William Soutar Henri-Frédéric AmielThe Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielPrint: Book


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