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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
 
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Charles Evans Geoffrey Chaucer[poetry, including the General Prologue]Print: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales (General Prologue)Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945(1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style — lovely paper, strong boards, and — aren't you envious — not one but two bits of ...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CreseydePrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Geoffrey LapageTommy FidlerManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] O...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945'At luncheon [read] Scott's "Architecture of Humanism", a valuable and permanent contribution to honest thought on the subject, and a book I rejoice to have. But Lord, h...Ronald Storrs Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Charles Evans Geoffrey Young [?]'Mountain Playmates'Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey Cust FaberA Character Study of the Oxford MovementPrint: Book
1850-1899'G Ebers, Homo Sum (German)'Sarah Good Georg EbersHomo SumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Georg August GoldfussHandbuch der ZoologiePrint: Book
1850-1899Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers see...Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupfersti...Print: Book
1700-1799'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book


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