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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, t...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touched before and there is something in "The Siege of Co...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1900-1945'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrived at 7.30. I read Byron all the time.'Harold Nicolson George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronManfredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronDarknessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart ...John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I staid in and read Byron'John Ruskin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
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1850-1899
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord Byron', beginning 'Ill-fated Heart! and can it be,/ Th...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken'Unknown
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1850-1899
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'.Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'To My Daughter'Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron', beginning (first verse): 'Bright be the place of thy ...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'Bright be the place of thy soul'Unknown



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