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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'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen [biography of Shelley]Print: Book
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...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
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...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War,Print: Book
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...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Homer Print: Book
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 Lucretius Print: Book
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
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 ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "He carries out one lye; we know not how many he bring...Samuel Johnson John Moore[travels]Print: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...Samuel Johnson Owen RuffheadLife of Alexander PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...Samuel Johnson Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Jean Jacques Rousseau[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Percy Wyndham Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Remy de Gourmont[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing[probably] Psychopathia SexualisPrint: Book


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