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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
 
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th...George Gordon Lord Byron Christoph Martin WielandunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, eleg...Eugenia Wynne Christoph Martin WielandAgathonPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristppe und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'Percy Bysshe Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeschichte der AbderitenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.' [subsequent readings from Aristippe recorded in entries for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ...Claire Clairmont Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.' [reading/translation of this text also recorded in journal entries for 4, 5,...Claire Clairmont Christoph Martin WielandMenander und GlycerionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'George Crabbe Christopher BensonHulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulti...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher HarveyThe Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the TemplePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher HarveyThe Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Christopher Isherwood[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Christopher IsherwoodAll the ConspiratorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains): 'Remorse is not for the elde...Edward Morgan Forster Christopher IsherwoodMr Norris Changes TrainsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Christopher IsherwoodGoodbye to BerlinPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1850-1899" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book


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