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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
 
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney leading article (unsigned) in Times Literary Suppl...Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Have you seen any reviews of Maeterlinck’s latest book, and if so, what do you think of the ideas it sets forth? There was a glorious piece of writing in last week’s...Ivor Bertie Gurney The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Poetry ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘I am back in the Trenches now and my address is altered as you notice. Thank you for Lawrence offer but cloth books are so bulky and impossible out here. I have sent...Isaac Rosenberg Westminster GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Thanks very much for the papers. I liked the article on the Somme Cinemas; of course Chesterton on Zangwill was nearer home; but C seems sly and certainly anti Jewis...Isaac Rosenberg [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfrid Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945‘‘Tis a crude, vagabondage of a life … here I am watching a fair old village toppling about my head. I think the wreckage will look even sicklier when the orchard-tre...Wilfred Owen PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘See … p. 54 "Sphere" for a good peep at Swinburne. Dam disgusting, excuse me … Have you seen Arnold Bennett’s "Pretty Lady". Fortunately I just secured my copy befor...Wilfred Owen Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the HomePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘We left the Corrugated Iron & Red Ten Billet [at Bohain] in a hurry early yesterday morning … We have here the Times of Thursday [17 October 1918], and the strange n...Wilfred Owen The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was pleased to receive your letter and tin of salmon. It is now Sunday night and it as [sic] been very hot we have had church parade this afternoon as we where [...William Henry Bonser Lamin Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of Revelations in his...Charles Hamilton Sorley Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1900-1945‘By the way I liked the Armenian article in The Cambridge Magazine.’Charles Hamilton Sorley The Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I have just been censoring letters: which hardly puts one in the mood for writing … The reading of a hundred letters has brought home to me one need. Could you send ...Charles Hamilton Sorley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945‘We are billeted in a town of single-line tramways and mean streets: four-foot square vegetable gardens, where plaintive cabbages wither: cobbles, tenements and cats ...Charles Hamilton Sorley Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘You don’t read "The Daily Mail", I suppose; but reading it out here opens one’s eyes to the dangerous influence the press is beginning to arrogate and may ultimately...Charles Hamilton Sorley Daily MailPrint: Newspaper


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