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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
 
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart Lewis' poems which he now has] 'It is imperfect, but...Thomas Carlyle Stewart Lewis[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fatal sisters),; v.3 p. 59 (On a distant prospect of E...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas Gray[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'.Mary Godwin William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy is the most finished, and excels in simple elegance...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert Burns[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... all Walle...Mountstuart Elphinstone Waller[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Cowley[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Butler[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Denham[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Pope[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Dryden[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... a great d...Mountstuart Elphinstone Jean de La Fontaine[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pastorals to be almost as ideal. Crabbe, with his occ...Eleanor Anne Porden George Crabbe[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Heine[poems]Unknown
1800-1849''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the pretty golden leaves, and peeping here and there at o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'.James Hogg William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Robert Browning[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translati...Edith Sitwell Stephane Mallarme[poems]Print: Book


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