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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
 
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson Homer Print: Book
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like t...Allan Ramsay HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson Homer Print: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson HomerodysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...Ronald Storrs HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Greek, I have started to read Homer's Iliad, of which, of course, you must have heard. Although you don't know Greek & don't care for poetry, I cannot resist the te...Clive Staples Lewis HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. June 16th, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon — as usual, — tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here"Elizabeth Barrett Browning Homer[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry. July 9th, 1831: "After breakfast, heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon"Elizabeth Barrett Browning Homer[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry. August 8th, 1831: "I have written a letter to Papa, read the first vol: of the Last man, which Mrs. Martin has sent me at last —& read the whole of the 8th...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Homer[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849‘...in my Sophocles I fail’d, chiefly from being put on in a misprinted passage – for the play was one I had studied with more than common attention. In Virgil I stumbl...Hartley Coleridge HomerOdysseyPrint: written and oral examinations
1900-1945The tourist class in the 'Athenia' was a distraction of wailing children and howling winds. I dislike the sea anyway when it is anything other than something blue t...Freya Stark HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945There is a cold air coming off Labrador, but not so bad as Syria. The sea is grey, exactly the colour of the seagulls with the white under their wings...I have the ...Freya Stark HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".'John Cole HonittBook of the seasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound...Elizabeth Carter HookerLaws of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1800-1849'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and ...Elizabeth Barrett HookerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself ...Elizabeth Barrett HookerunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But ...Thomas Babington Macaulay HoraceSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.'William Wordsworth HoraceWorks of Horace. Translated into English Prose, f...Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating from his time at Windy Brow in 1794.'William Wordsworth HoraceOdesPrint: Book


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