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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'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement, which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]The Nietzschean WayPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'When one has set aside the rubbish that H. G. Wells always puts in, there remains a great deal of original, thoughtful and suggestive work in it. The "Door in the Wall...Clive Staples Lewis Herbert George WellsThe Country of the Blind, and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am now engaged in reading "Sense & Sensibility'. It is, undoubtedly, one of her best. Do you remember the Palmer family?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Greek, I have started to read Homer's Iliad, of which, of course, you must have heard. Although you don't know Greek & don't care for poetry, I cannot resist the te...Clive Staples Lewis HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'He handed me over Crusius' Lexicon and, having told me to go through again as much as I could of what he had done, left the room. It seems an odd method of teaching, b...Clive Staples Lewis Gottlieb Christian CrusiusA Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems...Print: Book
1900-1945'This week I have taken a course of A. C. Benson's essays, which have impressed me very favourably indeed. Do you know them? He has a clear, simple, but melodious style...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Did you ever at Lurgan read the 4th Georgic? It is the funniest example of the colossal ignorance of a great poet that I know. It's about bees, and Virgil's natural hi...Clive Staples Lewis VirgilThe GeorgicsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading at present, for the second time, the Celtic plays of Yeats. I must try & get them next time I am at home.'Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'...your criticism of the"Well". I quite see your point, and, of course, agree that the interests of the tale reach their climax in the great scene at the World's End...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'Merriman is a far cry from the Brontes. Both of course are good, but while they should be sipped with luxurious slowness in the winter evening, he may be read in a che...Clive Staples Lewis Henry Seton Merriman[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day, as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am glad to hear you have read Esmond: it is one of my favourite novels, and I hardly know which to praise most, the wonderful, musical Queen Anne English, or the del...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Henry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped great things — Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters call...Clive Staples Lewis Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads, Second SeriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a whole, for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-BrockWilliam Morris: his Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished "Shirley"; which I think better than either "Jane Eyre" or "Villette". You must read it.'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'"The Roots of the Mountains" is the chief cause of my silence. It is not, however, in spite of this, nearly as good as the first volume of "The Well at the World's E...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Roots of the MountainsPrint: Book


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