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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
 
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, "Paradise Los...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'M&S...Mary and Percy ShelleyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its span in immensity, calculated him, by a sort of birth...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise Lost" possesses over every other poem - the Magnitud...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openings of great Poems, more particularly where the actio...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phrases and lines: 'round he throws his baleful eyes'; 'A...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?' and writes: 'Th...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'the glittering staff unfurl'd' to 'Of warriors old wit...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his form had not yet lost/ All her original brightness,...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'Anon out of the earth a fabric huge/ Rose like an exha...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the lines from 'Others, more mild, /Retreated in a sile...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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