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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 Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper: This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and Catherine Williams of Scorrier House in the year of o...William Williams anonPoetical description of song birdsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alaric Alexander WattsPoetical SketchesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'But Miss Christall. have you seen her Poems? — a fine, artless sensible girl, now Cottle that word sensible must not be c...Robert Southey Ann Batten CristallPoetical SketchesPrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson James GraingerPoetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CollinsPoetical WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world wit...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntPoetical Works of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney George CrabbePoetical Works of the Rev. George CrabbePrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived gr...Felicia Hemans Caroline Bowlespoetical/prose "pieces"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerardus Joannes VossiusPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, an...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerhard VossPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'George Eliot [pseud] AristotlePoeticsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1900-1945Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.Edward Morgan Forster Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
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1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard William CowperpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-...Joan Evans Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-...Joan Evans Matthew ArnoldpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'Mary St Leger Harrison poetryPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'George Douglas Campbell poetry
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry


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