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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
 
1700-1799'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! What colouring displayed throughout the works of that a...Samuel Richardson Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgewort...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFairie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting excitement Spenser's "Faery Queen".'Thomas A. Jackson Edmund SpenserFaery QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Quene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Quene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Spenser[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book


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