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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volume...Wilfred Owen Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Algernon SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.'Robert Louis Stevenson Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads [first series]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads, Second SeriesPrint: Book
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined]...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"...John Clare Robert TannahillPoems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"...John Clare Robert TannahillPoems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.? John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry eve...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Currer Bell [pseud.]Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellPrint: Book
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Katherine PhilipsPoems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine...Print: Book
1800-1849'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies as incomparably beautiful and laughing immoderately...James Hogg William WordsworthPoems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Bal...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey variousPoems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornw...Print: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Louisa Emmerson for Lord Radstock.Eliza Louisa Emmerson John ClarePoems Descriptive of Rural Life and SceneryPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think your doubt about the verses misplaced and unjustifi...Henry James Ford Madox HuefferPoems for PicturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, in...William Butler Yeats Rabindranath TagorePoems from Gitanjali: Song OfferingsUnknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and book of verse. [...] I am delighted to possess your translations of modern Welsh verse, also the introduction and biographical note...William Henry Hudson H. Idris BellPoems from the Welsh: Translated into English Vers...Print: Book
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1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph West...Samuel Parr John Morfittpoems in poems including Lines on HattonPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journal] entry: "Up at 6 A.M. and began the day by reading...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonPoems including 'The Two Voices'Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: '"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been reading, and think it very beautiful, yet very sad; a...Alfred Tennyson Alfred de Mussetpoems including 'Tristesse'Print: Unknown


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