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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery': '"Nor shall your presence, howsoe'er it mar The loveliness of Nature,...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthSonnets of the Imagination XLIIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetry was the only form of literature that I could read ...Vera Brittain William WordsworthpoetryPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that w...Vera Brittain William WordsworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of...William Wordsworth William Wordsworth'Highland sonnets'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of...William Wordsworth William Wordsworth'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water L...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson William Wordsworth'Michael'Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson William WordsworthThe ReclusePrint: Book
1850-1899'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'Elizabeth Ann Smith William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'Helen Rawlings William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'Elizabeth Edminson William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'Constance Wallis William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary'Alfred Rawlings William Wordsworth Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in the world — Wordsworth — who has written great part...Robert Southey William WordsworthThe BorderersManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde William WordsworthComplete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, ...John Ruskin William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading some of Wordsworth ... I think 'Tintern Abbey' is quite lovely. It seems to me Wordsworth has got a most wonderful way of putting into words feel...Emily Lytton William WordsworthTintern AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been reading the new edition of Wordsworth's poetry, in which there are several new things.'Sarah Wedgwood and the Miss AllensWilliam WordsworthUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road 14/4/31
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
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5 The subject of Wordsworth was then taken[.]...		Reginald H. Robson William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road 14/4/31
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5 The subject of Wordsworth was then taken[.]...		Howard Smith William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy WarriorPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road 14/4/31
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5 The subject of Wordsworth was then taken[.]...		Mary E. Robson William WordsworthShe Was a Phantom of DelightPrint: Book


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