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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 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in ...Edmund Gosse Ben Jonson Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more...Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me."Edmund Gosse John Keats Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young...Edmund Gosse William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to...Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse...Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Alphonse Daudet Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Plato Print: Book
1850-1899"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway John Maynard Keynes Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Emmuska Orczy Print: Book
1850-1899'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr...Kate Perugini  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within give...Leslie Stephen William Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw...Leslie Stephen Thomas Aquinas Print: Book
1850-1899?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long ...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be ...Leslie Stephen Victor Hugo Print: Book


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