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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it d...John Clare William ShakespeareHenry The FifthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'John Clare William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of its object I have ever read...'John Clare Thomas ErskineRemarks on the Internal EvidencePrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittCharacters of Shakespeare's PlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare James MaddockThe Florist's DirectoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare Elizabeth KentFlora DomesticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read th...John Clare [n/a]Solomon's SongPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather entertaining the pretendery letter of James Thompson is a...John Clare [n/a]The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read in Southeys "Wesley"'John Clare Robert SoutheyThe life of WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"...John Clare Robert TannahillPoems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPrint: Book
1800-1849'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the "Stamford Mercury" [quotes advert]'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercur...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in ...John Clare John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he m...John Clare James ThomsonThe Seasons (Winter)Print: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from...John Clare [n/a]Literary GazettePrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'John Clare [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'John Clare Elizabeth KentSylvan Sketches or a Companion to the ParkPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago in Yorkshire" - "Stamford Mercury"'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the "Stamford Mercury" has long been one at the head of...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compil...John Clare Thomas TusserFive Hundred Points of Good HusbandryPrint: Book


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