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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'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas M...James Hogg Allan Cunningham Print: Unknown
1700-1799'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three bo...James Hogg William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the peasants of his country; who, before oppression had...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Theocritus Unknown
1850-1899Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bending forward, his hands clasped, he gazed expectant, ...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I...Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1850-1899'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9."'Lady Charlotte Guest Euclid  Print: Book
1850-189919 February 1854: 'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. They took me through the Great Court [...] and thence i...Lady Charlotte Guest Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet entitled the "Golden Penny". To read the instalments...Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
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 Sallust 
1800-1849"Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical potion;" in same letter he talks about Mr Hayley's l...William Blake Francis Bacon Unknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Moschus Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Adelaide Morland Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Edminson Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Burgess Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . 'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-189926 June 1853: 'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I read and prayed as usual. How I got through it I cann...Lady Charlotte Guest  Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'.Claire Clairmont Schlegel Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal]. s Euripides Lucretius Homer's Illiad and Odyssey' [...Percy Bysshe Shelley Euripides Print: Book


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