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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‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas Sturge Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg H. G. Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I have been in topsy turveydom since I last saw you and have not been able to write. Even now it is in the extremest difficulties that I’m writing this. I wanted to ...Isaac Rosenberg Edward MarshGeorgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1900-1945‘When I clamp-clump-clamp-clumped into the Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, the poetic ladies were not a little surprised. The Readings were from Rabindranath Tagore, rea...Wilfrid Owen Rabindranath TagoreGitanjaliPrint: Book
1900-1945‘When I clamp-clump-clamp-clumped into the Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, the poetic ladies were not a little surprised. The Readings were from Rabindranath Tagore, rea...Wilfred Owen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyEldoradoPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Here’s a part of our Hut of 30. [Owen had sent a postcard showing the camp enclosed with the letter.] I slaved for them, all Sunday as Orderly—never thought myself c...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'If possible send me an amusing book small enough to be put in a large pocket. That is to say smaller than a Prayer-book and much smaller than a Hymn Book and much ...Maurice Baring Arnold BennettClayhangerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read Sous Verdun which I liked very much and I am reading Ma Piece which I'm not sure I don't like still better ... It is very early in the morning. Too ear...Maurice Baring Maurice GenevoixSous VerdunPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfrid Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945‘We have to go back to Camp on Monday! There are a number of Tents now standing: perhaps for us! I have not been to Hornchurch this Afternoon, but finding a well-furn...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like this Digs far better than the Queen’s Hotel life. It is the first time I ever shared rooms, in the Keats-Brown manner. I confess [2/Lt A. R.] Rickard is not k...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘‘Tis a crude, vagabondage of a life … here I am watching a fair old village toppling about my head. I think the wreckage will look even sicklier when the orchard-tre...Wilfred Owen PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘At the first Ambulance I arrived at in the Car, a Corporal came up to me with a staid air of sleepy dignity that seemed somehow familiar. And when he began to enter ...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘The next book for you to read is "A Knight on Wheels". It is great. I, with the inherited diffidence of my distinguished Grandma, must say I could never do anything ...Wilfred Owen Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am glad you sent that cutting from Wells’ Book. I hope you understood it. I did not. Not a word of it can I make sense of. I would rather we did not read this Book...Wilfred Owen Victor Hugol'Homme qui ritPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I go down today. Where to?—Nobody knows. May be in the Hosp. Train for days. Health: quite restored. Mood: highest variety of jinks. Weather: sub-tropical. Time: 1...Wilfred Owen Hilaire BellocA Pickled Company: Being a Selection from the Writ...Print: Book
1900-1945'You ask me whether I prefer a long letter or a short letter. I prefer a long letter to a short letter. No, I am not reading Shakespeare just at present. I am readi...Maurice Baring O. HenryHeart of the WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Moores Gospel according to George and Mary Hunter is a very tiresome book just like any rewritten Gospel and most "historical" novels.'Maurice Baring George MooreThe Brook KerithPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... it is raining slightly ... I have almost finished Twelfth Night. Yesterday I saw [Albert] Ball. I asked him how many Boches he had shot down. He said he didnt...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book


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