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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
 
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[poem on Winter]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 ...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'Since writing it, I have found in a poem by Hamilton of Bangour, these 2 lines to happiness

Nun sober and devout, where art thou fled
To hide in shade...		Charles Lamb William HamiltonunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....'George Gordon Lord Byron William HarnessunknownUnknown
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1800-1849		Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many of your compositions ...'George Gordon Lord Byron William HarnessunknownManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale William Harrison'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and he...Amelia Opie William Hayley Manuscript: Plays
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie William Hayley Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William HayleyThe Life of MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Hayley[Life and letters of William Cowper]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with Hayley for expiating so minutely on Cowper?s praise...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William HayleyLife and letters of William CowperPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's A...Elizabeth Barrett William HayleyMemoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey William HayleyAn Essay on Epic Poetry Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and...Dorothy Wordsworth William HazlittReview of The ExcursionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies William Hazlitt Print: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin William Hazlitt[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'Hilary Spalding William HazlittunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William HazlittBest of HazlittPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English PoetsPrint: Book


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