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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

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Charles E. Stansfield William WordsworthComposed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 180...Unknown
1850-1899'Mother has been reading "The Excursion" lately.'Edith Lytton William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have often read the bit of Wordsworth that you quote ['She was a Phantom of Delight'], and am very fond of it, and now I shall love it more and feel all that you ...Emily Lytton William WordsworthShe was a phantom of delightPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hope you are well, and are finding some solace in your duties. You must find it hard to console aliens in England. They probably love England, and now they are ali...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Wordsworth(Sonnets)Print: Book
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney William WordsworthOde: Intimations of ImmortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I am afraid there is little hope at present of another portion of the Recluse, but it must delight every lover of mankind to see how the influence of Wordsworth’s poet...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthThe ReclusePrint: Book, Hartley is also referring to a 'reading' of W. Wordsworth's poetry outside any form of text
1800-1849‘So true is Wordsworth’s observation (somebody has borrow’d my Wordsworth, and I’m like a Jack Tar without his tobacco pouch) that the older we grow, the more we become...Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read ‘Yarrow Revis[ited]’ - and some of the new Poems - very sweet, but can’t talk about them here, for I’ve more to say than ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I hope Mr. Wordsworth feels some consolation in the complete victory of his poetic fame. He may at least feel assured, that no Great Poet ever lived to see his name of...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I think I perceive in Wordsworth’s last volume [Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems], a decided inclination to the playful, the elegant and the beautiful; with an alm...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations...James Leigh Hunt William WycherleyPlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations...Charles Lamb William WycherleyPlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'Rosamond Lehmann William Alexander Gerhardi(e) Print: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'Leslie Runcimann William Alexander Gerhardi(e) Print: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...William and Martha DoddAmbassador Dodd's DiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha...Lillian Faithfull and motherWilliam B CarpenterPrinciples of Mental PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing William B. CarpenterPrinciples of Mental Physiology, With Their Applic...Print: Book
1850-1899'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Ger...John Ruskin William Bell Scott[memoir David Scott]Print: Book


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