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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h...Anne Tibble Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns Eliot'The Waste Land'Print: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns Eliot Print: Book
1900-1945[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, unhopeful, consoling cluster of poems; and discovered...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns EliotThe Four QuartetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Thomas Stearns Eliot[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What conne...Thomas Stearns Eliot Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandUnknown
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Thomas Stearns Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he can write poison like this: "The rats are underne...Bill Werner Thomas Stearns Eliot'Burbank'Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
[...]
5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Thomas Stearns Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Thomas Stears Eliot[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas Sturge Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas W DymockEngland's Dust and Ashes Raked upPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhyth...Alfred Rawlings Thomas Walls Dutton[writings on Nature of poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Thomas Wemyss ReidCharlotte Bronte: A MonographPrint: Book
1800-1849[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book


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