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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
 
1800-1849'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. I...Thomas Carlyle George CrabePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Thomas ChattertonPoems
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have placed those pretty pictures in regular succession;...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattiePoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'Samuel Pepys Katherine PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I had a very obliging letter from Mr Barker yesterday, to tell me that he had lent my poems to the Bishop of Limer...John Jebb Elizabeth BarrettpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to me a week ago [...] His poetry has a more spiritu...Elizabeth Barrett George HerbertpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong...Elizabeth Barrett John KenyonpoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding powe...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839: 'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Have you not heard of his Cosimo de' Medici? He is ...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HornepoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi...Thomas Carlyle Charles Hughes TerotPoemsManuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840: 'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from Powell] [...] I see the Monthly Chronicle -- & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch nature, & to feel thrillingly there that is poetry...Elizabeth Barrett Letitia Elizabeth LandonpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon es...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia GarrowpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842: 'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] very grateful to you for the gift of your poems [......Elizabeth Barrett Thomas WestwoodPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine Tennyson [...] But notwithstanding the poetry of the...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which she can't re-read -- Too melancholy & sordid -- & the...Janet Case Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842: 'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse now on my table. I have not as yet found time for th...Robert Browning Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I thought very good of its kind. More high-minded in...Richard Hengist Horne Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to ...Elizabeth Barrett John SterlingpoemsPrint: Serial / periodical


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