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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'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Laxdaela SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been devoting this week to the reading of Othello, which I like as well as any Shakespeare play I have read. The part of Iago, to my mind, is something of a ble...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember reading in a book called "The open Road" an extract from Hewlett's "Pan and the Young Shepherd" which I thought splendid. Thanks to our Galahad's detestable...Clive Staples Lewis Edward Verrall LucasThe Open Road, a Book for WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading nothing since Othello but a translation from the Icelandic'Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In Greek we have begun Demosthenes. Of course oratory is not a sort of literature that I appreciate or understand in any language, so that I am hardly qualified to exp...Clive Staples Lewis Demosthenes[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole...Clive Staples Lewis Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'After breakfast & a short walk we start work on Thucydides — a desperately dull and tedious Greek historian.'Clive Staples Lewis ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it] anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American...Clive Staples Lewis Jack LondonThe Star RoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'I see no reason to congratulate the Times on its recruiting supplement in any way, nor the country on the necessity (which it allows to remain) for such publications b...Clive Staples Lewis The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, B...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Love PeacockHeadlong HallPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been reading in library copies, Schopenhauer's "Will and Idea".....[He] is abstruse and depressing, but has some very interesting remarks on the theory of ...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and IdeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been reading in library copies... Swinburne's "Erechtheus" which is another tragedy on Greek lines like "Atalanta", though not so good in my opinion.'Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneErechtheus: A TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit...Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers LehmannKilled in ActionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'I... am going through an English literature of Kirk's by Andrew Lang. Lang is always charming whatever he does - or "did" as we must unfortunately say, and this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Andrew LangHistory of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Sw...Print: Book
1900-1945'There has also been from the London Library a book called "Springs of Helicon" by Mackail — you know, Professor of Poetry at Oxford and the man on William Morris. This...Clive Staples Lewis John William MackailThe Springs of Helicon: A Study in the Progress of...Print: Book
1900-1945'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" a...Clive Staples Lewis Gilbert MurrayA History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945'I ... have also re-read Jane Eyre from beginning to end — it is a magnificent novel. Some of those long, long dialogues between her and Rochester are really like duets...Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'The other book — which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people — is from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anythin...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodThe Education of Uncle PaulPrint: Book


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