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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
 
1850-1899'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam Benjamin CarpenterPrinciples of General and Comparative PhysiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.Lawrence Durrell William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague...Vita Sackville-West William Butler YeatsLeda and the SwanPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen William Butler Yeats Print: Book
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler YeatsCountess CathleenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler YeatsLand of Heart's DesirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler Yeats[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...Celia Burrow William Butler Yeats'Down by the Salley Gardens'Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		Kenneth F. Nicholson William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
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5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty abou...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading at present, for the second time, the Celtic plays of Yeats. I must try & get them next time I am at home.'Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'Arnold Bennett William Charles Macready[diary]Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837: 'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions[end italics] in "Strafford," seeing it on the tab...Robert Browning William Charles Macreadyannotations to Robert Browning, StraffordManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Charles WellsTwo essays: one upon single vision with two eyesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare William Collins Collins'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most temptin...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettBaby May and Other Poems on Infants Unknown


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