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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'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke Percy Bysshe Shelley[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I...[a grocer] Anon William Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems. the more I read them the more I...Sir George Beaumont John Beaumont[poems]Unknown
1700-1799'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Buchanan[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Herbert[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copie...Wordsworth FamilyThomas Wilkinson[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend of mine (fifty years old & an author but not Rogers) ...[friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon Annabella Milbanke[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Thomas Moore[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ...George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Robert Fergusson[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] ... sailed down to Loughrigg. Read poems on t...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] all went together to Mary Point [in Bainriggs ...Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. ColeridgeWilliam Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. ...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben Jonson[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to...Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie Robert Burns[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book


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