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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthWe are sevenPrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe DaffodilsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Henry Lewes William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'George Henry Lewes William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Highland GirlPrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Solitary ReaperPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Wordsworth Print: Book
1800-1849'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William WordsworthThe Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'.Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a p...Print: Book
1800-1849'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other day by some half-remembrance of a note to one of Wo...Alfred Tennyson William WordsworthThe white doe of RylstonePrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLaodamiaUnknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, ...Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthsonnetsUnknown
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three bo...James Hogg William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'.Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all the more simple poems, thinking myself like his Luc...Hannah Mitchell William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a pati...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton A...Print: Unknown


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