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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
 
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of...Thomas Percy Gerard LangbaineAn Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, ...Print: Book
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of...William Oldys Gerard LangbaineAn Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall on November 24th. I?ve done four so far ? fairly ex...Benjamin Britten Gerard Manley Hopkins[religious poems]Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gig...Virginia Woolf Gerard Manley Hopkins[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicati...William Soutar Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absences of the Secretary the minute of the last meeting were ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
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5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Gerard Manley Hopkins[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerardus Joannes VossiusPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, an...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerhard VossPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Gerhart Hauptmann[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull" and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck with it—for its truth ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Gerhart HauptmannThe Sunken BellPrint: Book
1800-1849"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the tas...Maria Edgeworth Germaine De StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds with information, and shows great mental power. She w...Hannah Macaulay Germaine de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1700-1799'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjo...Maria Josepha Holroyd Germaine de StaelDelphinePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is...Mary Berry Germaine De StaelDelphine (three volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, ...Felicia Hemans Germaine de StaelDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Sir Uvedale Price Germaine de StaelL'Allemagne (vol.3)Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Germaine de StaelL'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Sir Uvedale Price Germaine de StaelL'Allemagne (vols 1-3)Print: Book


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