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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey LucanunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Henry HeadleySelect Beauties of Ancient English poetryPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Robert LovellversesUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Phineas FletcherThe Purple Island, or, the Isle of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverBoadiciaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverMedeaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my frequent perusals of Werter have been attended. for s...Robert Southey Johann Wilhelm von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'The Leonidas is a very fine poem in my opinion. J. Warton says it is written with the simplici...Robert Southey Richard GloverLeonidasPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'I have now read the Monk — & admire the delicacy of Lewis in criticising the Bible. there is genius in the b...Robert Southey Matthew ("Monk") LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'Somebody (a painter I believe — Tresham?) has [MS torn] a poem called the Sea Sick Minstrel lately. tis a v...Robert Southey Henry TreshamThe Sea-Sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows. A Poe...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Ghost SeerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerFiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.'Robert Southey Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...Robert Southey LucanWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...Robert Southey Mark AkensidePleasures of the ImaginationPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation...Robert Southey William CowperThe Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into En...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better than these strains to her eldest born. they immortalize...Robert Southey Horace Walpole BedfordOde to IndolenceManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'Hawkesworth argues very strongly against indulging in these fantastical pleasures — they enervate the mind & by accus...Robert Southey John HawkesworthThe AdventurerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'How like you the gallant city of London? is it not an overgrown monster devouring its own children? a large sink of f...Robert Southey John DonneSatyre IIPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is that I should like to write Commentaries upon his Co...Robert Southey Sir William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England Print: Book


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