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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
 
1800-1849'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.' ...Claire Clairmont Homer IliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his father, when he sent him to the Trojan war, was the ...Samuel Johnson HomerIliadPrint: Book
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like t...Allan Ramsay HomerIliadPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." George Otto Trevelyan Homer IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson Homer IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.' ...Claire Clairmont Homer Iliad (Book IV)Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad. [...] 'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish the V Book of the Iliad.'Claire Clairmont Homer Iliad (Book V)Print: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...Samuel Johnson HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...James Boswell HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...James Boswell HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: 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
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I b...George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Homer Iliad, thePrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson HomerIlliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon HomerIlliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'Percy Bysshe Shelley HomerIlliadPrint: Book


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