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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'I have just read King Lear. I think you are more like Goneril than Regan and more like Regan than Cordelia. But you have many qualities that none of these three si...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seely came to luncheon yesterday and talked nonsense. He wasted a good deal of our time ... I am reading a book called W.O.2. Not about the war office.'Maurice Baring Maurice DrakeW.O.2Print: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring John Collings SquireTwelve PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamThe Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamBarbe of Grand BayouPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen O. Henry (pseud. Willam Sydney PorterunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen Agnes and Egerton CastleThe Hope of the HousePrint: Book
1900-1945‘A cheap dinner and so to King’s Cross an hour early to get a Corner Seat … I read some Israel Zangwill as far as the Midlands. Then … slept. I woke up as we were rou...Wilfred Owen Israel ZangwillunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945‘You give no address so I forward the "Morals [of Marcus Ordeyne", W. J. Locke] to Alpenrose. You will like to read it in London. I feel rather limp this morning—coul...Wilfred Owen William John LockeThe Morals of Marcus OrdeynePrint: Book
1900-1945‘The other day I read a Biography of Tennyson, which says he was unhappy, even in the midst of his fame, wealth, and domestic serenity. Divine discontent! I can quite...Wilfred Owen Anon Anon[unknown biography of Alfred, Lord Tennyson]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I am going to send you "The Old Huntsman" as a festive gift … “The Death Bed” is the finest poem. I told [Sassoon] my opinion. It is his own. The poem is coming out ...Wilfred Owen Siegfried SassoonThe Old Huntsman and other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have been to [Tynecastle] School again. Am going to do "Hiawatha" with them now.’Wilfred Owen Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Song of HiawathaPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Read Wells’ article in today’s Mail. Most important. I enclose it.’Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe First-Class Air Fighter: Is He Going to Be the...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Received the Books last night, and spent an exciting few minutes looking through the poems. I congratulate you on the Binding & Type.’Wilfred Owen Leslie GunstonThe Nymph and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s "Essays", and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no fic...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsWhat is Coming: A Forecast of Things after the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen William HazlittEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'The priest brother would give us English songs on his Gramophone ... They were v. decent & I should have liked to partake the funny dinner but we returned to Vaton...Cecil Vincent Connolly Rudyard KiplingDepartmental DittiesPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanPrint: Book


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