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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...James Boswell William Hamilton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Andrew Erskine William Hamilton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry of late. "He puts (said he) a very common thing in a...Samuel Johnson Thomas Warton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...John Taylor John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...James Boswell Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...Samuel Johnson Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volume...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector Macneil[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The following Song he wrote in my Praise forsooth is no...Hester Lynch Thrale Herbert Lawrence[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how much they seemed to enjoy them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Siegfried Loraine Sassoon[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicati...William Soutar Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar G.S. Fraser[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two years in the tropics. Brought some poems for me to look ...William Soutar Tom Scott[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definite...William Soutar Walter De La Mare[poems]Print: Book


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