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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may ...Anna Seward Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."'Lady Caroline Lamb Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play Pleas?d to the last he cr...Lady Caroline Lamb Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IUnknown
1800-1849'Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidin night/...'Carey/Maingay groupAlexander PopeEpitaph XI:Intended for Sir Isaac NewtonPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAlexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IVUnknown
1900-1945'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nature as this must remain to some extent neglected. ...Gerald Moore Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle Alexander PopeThe Iliad / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeThe Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefi...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, are sometimes very distinguishable...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMemoirs of Martin ScriblerusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMoral EpistlesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Alexander PopeThe Iliad of Homer
1700-1799'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeunknownUnknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall be, that every one of my subjects, who is incapable ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bol...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many other instances ?What happier nature shrinks at with...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who enjoys, in a higher degree that "Eternal sunshine of...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'Mary Shelley Alexander PopeIliad of Homer / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Alexander PopeIliad of Homer / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Alexander PopeEssay on Criticism, AnPrint: Book


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