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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
 
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every ev...John Marsh Thomas BurnettTheory of the EarthPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment e...Robert Southey Thomas BurnettThe Sacred Theory of the Earth Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment e...Robert Southey Thomas BurnettDe Statu Mortuorum Print: Book
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'Mary Groom Thomas CampbellHohenlindenUnknown
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'Mary Groom Thomas CampbellThe dirge of wallaceUnknown
1800-1849'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale.Mary Groom Thomas CampbellGertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian TaleUnknown
1800-1849'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny'Mary Dugdale Thomas CampbellThe Last ManUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas CampbellGertrude of Wyoming (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth ...Sara Hutchinson Thomas CampbellExile of Erin, TheUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- ...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellLines on Leaving a Scene in BavariaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of ta...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from London. I sate by his [William Wordsworth's] bedsid...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfort...Anne Lister Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles ...Thomas Carter Thomas CampbellLetters from AlgiersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Thomas Campbell[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy,...Thomas Campbell Thomas CampbellFirst discourse upon PoetryUnknown


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