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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
 
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen John Milton Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen William Butler Yeats Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Rabindranath Tagore Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and ...Wilfred Owen Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and ...Siegfried Sassoon Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and ...Siegfried Sassoon John Keats Print: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and ...Siegfried Sassoon Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by mili...Wilfred Owen Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Homer Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson Lucretius Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson Homer Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Edward Young Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Virgil  Print: Book


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