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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), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'George Gordon Lord Byron Lugano GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningLuriaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last night, & feel just as a bullet might feel [...] sho...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert BrowningLuria (Act I)Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a dispute of considerable length with Johnson, who, as u...Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de CamoensLusiadsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design to translate the "Lusiad", of the merit of which he...Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de CamoensLusiadsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonneLXXX SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonneLXXX SermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn John MiltonLycidasPrint: 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 John MiltonLycidasPrint: 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]...Mary Godwin John MiltonLycidas
1850-1899'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got rather chummy with Phillpotts & he is a grand chap,...Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsLying ProphetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's transla...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Christian Karl Josias BunsenLyra GermanicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po...Robert Bridges Heinrich Heinelyric poetryPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., enchanted with the Idiot Boy.' Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthLyrical BalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthLyrical BalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthLyrical BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseyLyrics of LovePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since you left me, except two books of Dr Randolph's "Den...Elizabeth Smith WiessenLyrische GedischtePrint: Book
1900-194518 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [......Roger Fry Aristophanes LysistrataManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesLysistrataePrint: Book


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