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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielMusophilusUnknown
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth Sneyd DaviesAgainst Indolence. An EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".'Herbert Southey Daniel DefoeLife and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by...Print: Book
1800-1849'in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge "never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure from the island."'Hartley Coleridge Daniel DefoeLife and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by...Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'William Wordsworth Rene DescartesunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kenelm DigbyTwo Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines: "That noble Chaucer, in those former tim...William Wordsworth Michael DraytonElegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, E...Unknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Guillaume de Saluste DubartasDubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa...Print: Book
1800-1849'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... 'Robert Southey Guillaume de Saluste DubartasDubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa...Print: Book
1800-1849'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... 'William Wordsworth Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... 'William Wordsworth Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815: 'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All mod...William Wordsworth William GodwinLives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownTale Imitated from GowerUnknown
1800-1849'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "'Wordsworth FamilyJames GrahameSabbath, TheUnknown
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".'William Wordsworth James GrahameBirds of ScotlandUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie of Human Learning, APrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie on Warres, APrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleAlahamPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800...Wordsworth FamilyJeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte GuyonLife of Lady Guion, ThePrint: Book


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