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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mostly at Boxley, where A. T. was now settled with his ...Edmund Lushington Alfred Tennyson'In Memoriam' versesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the September of 1834, he says to his friend W. C. Lake (afterw...Julius Hare Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842: 'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what delight I have read and read again your two beautiful volu...Samuel Rogers Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi...Thomas Carlyle Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLeigh HuntpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonTheocritus poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Alfred Tennyson Virgil  Print: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLady Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Hallam Tennyson, on his childhood hypochondria: 'I used, from having early read in my father's library a great number of medical books, to fancy at ...Alfred Tennyson 'medical books'Print: Book
1800-1849['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]: 'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he cried, "Where is the sea? Show me the sea." So after ...Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working peopleAlfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '14th [June]. Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [sic].'Alfred Tennyson Sophocles Oedipus ColoneusPrint: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand, Count FathomPrint: Book
1800-1849From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of ...Alfred Tennyson Miss Rundlepoem on ItalyUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after ...Samuel Bamford Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after ...Samuel Bamford Alfred Tennyson'The Sleeping Beauty'Print: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to 'Miss Holloway (of Spilsby)', 'about her cousin Miss Jean Ingelow's poems, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings': 'I have only just returne...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowA Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and FeelingsPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey de Vere on Tennyson's second visit to Ireland, as his guest, during 1848: 'In the evenings he had vocal music from Lady de Vere and her sister, and Sonatas of M...Alfred Tennyson Crabbe'A Sorrowful Tale'Print: Book
1800-1849The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Alfred Tennyson Daniel O'ConnellHistory of IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasure. I never was so much taken with anything. The t...John Wilson Croker CrabbeTalesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountably expressive of the description.'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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