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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusLalkaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The process through which public opinion gradually turns fro...Charles Knight Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I knew, I knew it could not last...' [transcript (exact) of lines 277-294]member of Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387]member of Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhUnknown
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cann...Harriet Martineau Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'Zoe Procter Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Helen Rawlings Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled and unattributed], beginning 'I wept thy absence – oer...Catherine Austen Thomas MooreLalla RookhUnknown
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:] 'Read Lalla Rookh.'Elizabeth Firth Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MooreLalla Rookh: an oriental romancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time'John Buckley Castieau Thomas MooreLalla Rookh: an oriental romancePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah RookhUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or thre...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outl...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah Rookh (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th...Matthew Gregory Lewis Thomas MooreLallah Rookh (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beau...Anne Lister Thomas MooreLallah Rookh or 'Review'Unknown
1800-1849'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLallah Rookh: an Oriental RomancePrint: Book


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