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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
 
1900-1945'9. Charles Stansfield then read his paper on Charles Lamb. He gave us a clear picture of Lamb in his family relationships, beginning with a delightful study of Lamb’s ...Howard Smith Odds and EndsUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordOdeManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'Of your ode a few words before I set to transcribing. Before I read the last half sheet I wished you to ...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordOdeManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 August 1794: 'When your ode reachd me it reminded me of neglect & I blushed as I read.' Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordOdeManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:] 'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are engaged by exercise, I am glad enough in the evening...Catherine Talbot Epictetus OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]' George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceOde ("Exegi monumentum")Unknown
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these ve...Susanna Arabella Thrale Alexander PopeOde for Music on St Cecilia's DayPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsOde occasion'd by the death of Mr ThomsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Elizabeth Marriage John KeatsOde on a Grecian UrnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

5. Mary S. W. Polla...		Francis E. Pollard John KeatsOde on a Grecian UrnUnknown
1850-1899'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and ...Samuel Johnson Bonnell ThorntonOde on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient B...Print: Unknown
1900-1945`My dear Watson: Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Ode, in such circumstances as the present. If the ...Thomas Hardy William WatsonOde on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VI...Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas Gray GrayOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a ...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) ...'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] It has a greatness worthy of its theme and an absolu...Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case you don?t know) aloud this morning, and I had a hand a...Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.Print: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father r...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Some time in 1852 Tennyson read over to me his "Ode on the Duke of Wellington," discussing various points ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown


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