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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "Criterion"'.Arnold Bennett T. S. EliotCriterion, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanCritic, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanCritic, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Thomas Henry NewmanCritical and Historical EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sort...Thomas Green Edmond MaloneCritical and Miscellaneous Works of John DrydenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'Thomas Green Jean-Baptiste DubosCritical reflections on poetry, painting and musicPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or ano...George Gordon Lord Byron Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Month...Samuel Johnson Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritu...Samuel Johnson Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritu...James Boswell Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critical...Henry James Barrett Wendellcritical study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.' Virginia Woolf Leslie Stephencritical work on PopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Criticism]'.Claire Clairmont SchlegelCriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].'Claire Clairmont SchlegelCriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCriticism on Faust (working title)Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review
1700-1799'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return o...James Boswell John YoungCriticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to hi...Elizabeth Barrett George Burgescriticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Soph...Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantCritik der reinen VernunftPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantCritik der reinen VernunftPrint: Book


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