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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth 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 Bartholomew SimmonspoemsPrint: Unknown
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 Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron LeighpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon, 1844: 'I return with thanks the Poems of Miss Barrett, which I now always mention in high terms to any of my acquaintances, whenever t...Sara Coleridge Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems (1844): 'Your "Legend of Brittany" is full of beautiful touches [...] The...Elizabeth Barrett James Russell LowellPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children...Thomas Westwood and familyElizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children...Thomas Westwood Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844: 'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a time, while the other was out, -- open before me dai...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When it was discovered that she liked Swinburne's poetry, Sir George demanded that she forego such sensual verse. If she had to read poetry, he pontificated, she should ...Edith Sitwell Algernon Charles SwinburnePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgepoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly t...Thomas Stearns Eliot George BarkerpoemsUnknown
1900-1945Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'Leonard Woolf Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 10 January 1845: 'I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett [...] since the day last week when I...Robert Browning Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet...Elizabeth Barrett Ebenezer ElliottpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [...] as one of the most witty of our wits in verse, ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Catherine Maria FanshawepoemsManuscript: Unknown, copied
1900-1945'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'Harold Nicolson Emily DickinsonpoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the September of 1834, he says to his friend W. C. Lake (afterw...Julius Hare Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book


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