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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
 
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1800-1849'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked old play that you never read: "Good Mirabel, do not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus H...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveOld Batchelor, ThePrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's Nym in Henry V: and the Expressions are in no few Pas...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'That Man, I trow, is doubly curs't, Who of the best doth make the worst, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CoombeDr Syntax in Search of the PicturesqueUnknown
1700-1799'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'George Austen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Complete transcript of Cowper's poem.Anon William CowperThe Negro's complaintUnknown
1800-1849Transcription of Cowper's poem and ''By W. Cowper'.B.A.T. Herbert William CowperMy Father! When I learned that thou was DeadUnknown
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849I never framed a wish or formed a plan that flattered mewith hopes of earthly bliss. But thou wert there. [rewriting of lines 695-697 of Book IV]member of Carey/Maingay groupWilliam CowperThe Task, Book IVUnknown
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[or...Charles Lamb William CowperOn the Loss of the Royal GeorgePrint: Book
1800-1849In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem).George Gordon, Lord Byron William CowperFriendshipUnknown
1850-1899'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes...Thomas Burke William Cowper Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well...Anne Lister William CowperRetirementPrint: Book


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