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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'It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my o...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I rec...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.'Robert Bevan Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I see by the Camb. News that J. Thomas has received the D.C.M. + I hope there will be a few more Aber boys who ill come home with the same honour.'H. L. Powell Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The men of my section — with whom I shared its contents — had previously heard & read in the "C.N." of the charitable disposition of the people of dear old Aber., & with...Robert W. Ellis Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological...T. S. Eliot Jessie L. WestonFrom Ritual to RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'A good many English here. We stare and are silent, following the manners of our own race. Don Quixote and walking are my only friends.'John Masefield Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer present ...James Lochhead Jack [n/a] [n/a][telegram]Manuscript: telegram
1900-1945'By the same post with the ordered copy of the E[nglish] R[eview]arrived the charming cahier des vers ["High Germany"] inscribed to us both. I have been turning over it...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford High GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945And, if it be in your power, bear serenely with imitators. My "Jungle Books" begat zoos of them. but the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called "Ta...Rudyard Kipling Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesPrint: Book
1900-1945"Thanks for the '1st men in the moon', I have already finished it and enjoyed it very much."Clive Staples Lewis H.G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them be...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'Still, it is a very fine tragedy. So is the Greek play that we are doing. It is quite unlike all that stiff bombast which we are accustomed to associate with Greek tra...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall". Talking about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny...Clive Staples Lewis Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam and other poemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty abou...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Last week I got out of the library the works of our present poet laureate, Bridges, who did not impress me a bit.'Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have now struck better ground in Charlotte Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which although melodramatic like all her books, shapes very well indeed.'Clive Staples Lewis Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'This week I have been reading a most remarkable book which has created a great impression. it is "The Upton Letters", a series of letters from a school master at "Upto...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher BensonThe Upton LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am at present engaged in reading Newman's poems; do you know them at all? They are very, very delicate and pretty, and are like nothing more than one of those valuab...Clive Staples Lewis John Henry NewmanVerses on Various OccasionsPrint: Book


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