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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully...Thomas Hardy Stephen PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...'Edith Sitwell Edith SitwellpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convinced, and have been from the moment the MS. fell int...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche...Hannah Mitchell William WordsworthpoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton R PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of...Alexander Pope John Wilmot Earl of RochesterpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spite of Appearances, this Copy is better for the Mss. N...Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeinepoemsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he h...Robert Browning Robert BrowningpoemsUnknown
1700-1799Queen Caroline's discovery of the poetry of Stephen Duck, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): '"the QUEEN [...] upon s...Queen Caroline Stephen DuckpoemsUnknown
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Thomas Hardy Thomas HardypoemsUnknown
1800-1849Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile production...Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Browne [later Hemans]PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solitude. My copy is marked all over with hieroglyhics i...Harriet Martineau R. Monckton MilnespoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John AnsterPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.'Katherine Mansfield W.J.D.PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane. WhatEVER is touched is spoiled [...] Locksley Ha...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as tha...Gerald Moore Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book


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