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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
 
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Samuel Butler[poems complete works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Emily [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation']Unknown
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems extracts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Percy Bysshe Shelley[poems extracts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems extracts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson William Wordsworth[poems extracts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Rosamund Wallis [unspecified authors] [poems for children]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...R.B. Graham Thomas Love Peacock[poems from the novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: "Yes, we like it....Hannah Mitchell [unknown-probably various contributors][poems in newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849‘Glad you’ve seen Winter’s Wreath.’Sarah Coleridge Hartley Coleridge[poems in The Winter's Wreath]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'George Eliot [pseud] Alfred Lord Tennyson[poems including 'The First Quarrel']Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Bruce Dilks Walt Whitman[poems on the sea]Unknown
1700-1799'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italic...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poems sent by admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as...James Boswell Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as...Samuel Johnson Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as...George Catcot Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things".' Samuel Johnson Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Jonathan Swift[poems to Stella]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Jean Ingelow'John Ruskin Jean Ingelow[poems?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorc...Princess Charlotte George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book


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