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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining f...William Ewart Gladstone William WatsonPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945`My dear Watson: Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Ode, in such circumstances as the present. If the ...Thomas Hardy William WatsonOde on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VI...Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book
1850-1899'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.Bertha M. Pollard William Watson Print: Book
1850-1899'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.Alfred Rawlings William Watson Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him.'Alfred Tennyson William Watson'Wordsworth's Grave'Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

...		Alfred Rawlings William Watson[unidentified poetry]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Francis E. Pollard William WatsonIn Laleham ChurchyardUnknown
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney William WatsonThe Battle of the BightPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf William WebbeA Discourse of English PoetriePrint: Book
1600-1699August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfeIsaac Archer William WhatelyThe New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deliPrint: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William WhatelyA Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten...Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam WhewellHistory of the Inductive SciencesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'Charles Darwin William WhewellEssay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Co...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhewellFraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorla...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale William WhistonAstronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I met them in yr letter.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhiteTravel in Northumberland and the BorderPrint: Book
1700-1799'[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much preferable to that of the Head alone'Samuel Richardson William WhiteheadEssay on RidiculePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little m...Samuel Johnson William Whitehead[poem on Garrick]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little m...James Boswell William Whitehead[poem on Garrick]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...James Boswell William Whitehead'Elegy to Lord Villiers'Print: Unknown


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