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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'The literary event of the week is our respected laureate's ode in the Times Literary Supplement: truly a most remarkable production, though I am afraid like the honest...Clive Staples Lewis Robert BridgesOde on the Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespea...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upst...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJohn Silence, Physician ExtraordinaryPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am awfully bucked about "Twelfth Night": I thought at the time you remember, that Heath Robinson's illustrations were absolutely perfect — quite as good as Rackh...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'The journey home was absolutely damnable: I had to wait an hour at Letterkenny, and an hour and a quarter at Strabane. You may judge of my boredom when I tell you that...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The Novel MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the mornings in bed I am going over "Sense and Sensibility" again — which I had nearly forgotten. Do you remember Mrs Jennings and Marianne Dashwood and the rest?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...' (2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed the end better than any parts excep...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy". Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a ...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJimbo, a FantasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of Morris...'Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Defense of Guenevere and other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the "Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have probably read too.'Clive Staples Lewis Horace Annesley VachellThe Paladin, as Beheld by a Woman of TemperamentPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '...also dipped often into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Being entirely made up of conversation I don't think it is a book to be read continuously, tho' it is very g...Clive Staples Lewis James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book whose scene is set in Oxford and which tells one a good deal about the University (not Tom Brown), "Lady Connie" by Mrs. Humphrey Wa...Clive Staples Lewis Mary Augusta WardLady ConniePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am now, through the week, reading Scott's "Antiquary". I suppose you have read it long ago: I am very pleased with it, especially the character of the Antiquary ...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder what a book called "Letters from Hell" published at 1/- by Macmillan would be like?' (2) 'I have written up for "Letters from Hell" and it ought to be her...Clive Staples Lewis Valdemar Adolph ThistedLetters from HellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it "Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard KiplingRewards and FairiesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[Untitled]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Many thanks for the "Spectator" which I shall certainly keep for the sake of the poem. It is, I quite agree with you, a really notable piece of work, quite above the a...Clive Staples Lewis Frederick Samuel BoasUlster on the SommePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ...Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy OsborneLetters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William TemplePrint: Book


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