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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
 
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and...Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at CharterhouseHomer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'.Elizabeth Barrett Homer  Print: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I w...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic]...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Vi...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832: 'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting the number of lines he has thought proper to leav...Elizabeth Barrett Homer Carmina HomericaPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads ...Sir Ronald Storrs Homer unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Homer 'description of Hades'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who writes, "Thus I get as much as it is possible to ha...Alfred Tennyson Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some of the Iliad out aloud to us, little boys came and s...Alfred Tennyson Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." George Otto Trevelyan Homer IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson Homer IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenza, and sat in the sun in front of the study window, ...Hallam Tennyson Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....Alfred Tennyson Homer  Print: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'...what do you think Mitford's 'Greece' has made me begin, the 'Iliad' by Cowper which we were talking of.' Charles Darwin Homer The IliadPrint: Book


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