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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & consequently incapable of improvement — for Homer is...Robert Southey William Warburton'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aene...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so ridiculous as Critics have pretended — I cry out agains...Robert Southey John DrydenOf Dramatick Poesie, an Essay Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all these sensations in a twentieth part of the time I wro...Robert Southey Erasmus DarwinZoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic LifePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. Statius says "quâ non gravior mortalibus addita cur...Robert Southey Proverbs, 13:12Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. Statius says "quâ non gravior mortalibus addita cur...Robert Southey Publius Papinius StatiusThebaidPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, 'Grosvenor I have a curiosity for you. two sonnets by James Jennings — seriously intended. upon Metaphor & ...Robert Southey James JenningsSonnets on Metaphor and PersonificationManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'A good phrase of Sir P Sidneys for looking foolish. "he lookd like an Ape that had newly taken a purgatio...Robert Southey Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...Robert Southey Jeanne Marie Roland de la PlatiereAppel a L’Impartiale Postérité Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...Robert Southey Helen Maria WilliamsLetters from FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Experience never wasted her lesson on a less fit pupil — yet Bedford my mind is considerably expanded ...Robert Southey William GodwinEnquiry Concerning Political Justice Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. it is my intention next year to write a tragedy. the...Robert Southey Robert NaresReview of work by SoutheyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. it is my intention next year to write a tragedy. the...Robert Southey Richard CumberlandThe Observer Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism...Robert Southey Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism...Robert Southey Joseph CottlePoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “In the name of God! take an urinal".' Robert Southey anon"alchemical receipt"Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Your stanza on Hope may be made excellent. your translation I have not yet compared with the Greek — w...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles Bedfordverses on HopePrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'If you print your Musćus print the Greek likewise. for my own part — I think the poem of too immoral ...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordThe Loves of Hero and LeanderManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mćviad? the poem is not equal to the former production of the same author — but the s...Robert Southey William GiffordThe MćviadPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the most agreable part of it for they live underground. ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Lope Felix de Vega CarpioLa Hermosura de Angelica Print: Book


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