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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
 
1800-1849From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of ...Alfred Tennyson Miss Rundlepoem on ItalyUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravagant that, coupled with the post-mark [italics]Islewo...Horace Walpole anonpoem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently fro...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry [...] Another poem, valued for its stately beauty ...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethepoem on seeing Schiller's skullPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of New Zealand!! [...] as little as you do, & have vent...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin Townsendpoem on the departure and farewell sermon of Georg...Unknown
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "Grail" to be [italics]printed[end italics] [...] I r...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonpoem on the Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'You will be surprized perhaps at hearing that Cowpers poem does not at all please me. you must have he...Robert Southey William Cowperpoem [unidentified]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have written originally in English.)' Arnold Bennett Laurent TailhadePoemes aristophanesquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translation of a [italics] ballade elegiaque [end italics] fr...Wilfred Owen Laurent TailhadePoemes elegiaquesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas RandolphPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George DyerPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Elizabeth Barrett SynesiusPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Hugh Stuart Boyd SynesiusPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received some time since, through the hands of Southey. I ha...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownpoemsUnknown
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1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Sir Walter ScottpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wil...Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-DuntonpoemsUnknown
1900-1945"'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and...Asquith FamilyRupert BrookepoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining f...William Ewart Gladstone William WatsonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother,...Walter Raleigh Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book


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