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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'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-win...William Soutar Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Scots UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century an...William Soutar George Burnett [ed]Book of Scottish VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two years in the tropics. Brought some poems for me to look ...William Soutar Tom Scott[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definite...William Soutar Walter De La Mare[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally few of them have any interest in serious or solid read...Joseph Conrad[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of exultation over the sheer art of the thing.' After a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Eldest SonManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess wife and his kid, right away. I have asked him to co...Joseph Conrad Carl Murrell Marris Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthySome Platitudes Concerning DramaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me throughout its immense length. Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one. . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ readin...Arnold Bennett Hubert GriffithTunnel TrenchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cours...Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945 Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercury'. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cou...Arnold Bennett J.B. Priestley Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression. For myself, I have been more impres...Arnold Bennett Margaret KennedyThe Constant NymphPrint: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett L.G. JohnsonArnold Bennett of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett Frederick Joseph Harvey DartonArnold Bennett Print: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is stron...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book


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