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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
 
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1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford [classic histories]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford [voyages]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled...William Wordsworth George RedpathThe Border History of England and ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing t...John Clare CinderellaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing t...John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, I shall feel truly gratified in a personal acquainta...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles DallasunknownUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,...George Gordon Lord Byron HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,...George Gordon Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I ...George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o...John Clare Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from e...Robert Story Alexander Pope Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insiste...Robert Story Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander PopeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnsonunknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas GrayunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus fr...George Gordon Lord Byron AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which...George Gordon Lord Byron Harriet LeeThe German's TalePrint: Book


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