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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 Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer...Robert Southey HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: '"Ille & nefasto te posuit die,/ Quicumque primum, & sacrilega manu/ Produxit, arbos, in nepotum/ Perniciem." ...Robert Southey HoraceOdes, 2:13Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: 'If the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destroyd (said Dr Pangloss to Candidus) if Miss Cunegonda ...Robert Southey VoltaireCandide, ou l'OptimismePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st...Robert Southey Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st...Robert Southey EuclidElements Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brought over a copy for you. you know it was my intentio...Robert Southey Amos Simon CottleIcelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translate...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find time to write. for company I have neither leisu[re or MS...Robert Southey anonLaw booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April, 1797: 'Have you ever met with Mary Wollstonecrafts letters from Sweden & Norway? she has made me in love with a cold climate ...Robert Southey Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look fo...Amos Cottle unknownEdda Soemundar hinns FrodaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'.Rose Macaulay Thomas a KempisOn The Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke Minority Report of the Poor Law CommissionPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke books on metrePrint: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t...Female American travelling-companions French novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830): '"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, which have been sent to me; but I think there are some ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'William Wordsworth Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
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1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge VossLouisaPrint: Book
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1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817: 'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very masterly article.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southeyarticle on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Serial / periodical


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