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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "A...Samuel Johnson Mark AkensidePleasures of Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formerly, i....William Windham Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...Robert Southey Mark AkensidePleasures of the ImaginationPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter Mark AkensidePleasures of the Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841: 'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint style, but possessing the rare qualities of inten...William Charles Macready Charles F. DarleyPlighted TrothUnknown
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plotinus PlotinusPlotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philo...Print: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson WhewellPlurality of WorldsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesPlutusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'Albert Battiscombe [unknown]PneumaticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Pocket German dictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h...Lady Desborough George Meredithpoem
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."Henry James Robert LowellpoemPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828: 'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -- notwithstanding your kind permission [...] My gene...Elizabeth Barrett Henrietta MuschettpoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845: 'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first newspaper you sent to me, was sent in vain for the v...Elizabeth Barrett Allan Park PatonpoemPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912: 'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and I had a long talk alone with Miss Wright about her w...Edward Morgan Forster Miss WrightpoemManuscript: Unknown
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 Johann Heinrich Vosspoem ("nuptial benediction")Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad.Edward Morgan Forster A. E. HousmanPoem LII ('Far in a western brookland')Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read Theodosia Garrow's narrative poem 'The Doom of Cheynholme' in The Keepsake For ...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowpoem on death of Letitia Elizabeth LandonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham poem on family BiblePrint: Serial / periodical


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