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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
 
1700-1799'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Song of Songs (Old Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain'... 'Soft upon the summer air /...'[transcript of text] [NB there was a poet called Charles Swain who published from 1828-1850s].Emma Bowly Charles SwainSong of the BellsUnknown
1800-1849'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain "Soft upon the summer air,..."'Bowly groupCharles SwainSong of the BellsUnknown
1900-1945'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of garden...Gerald Moore Walt WhitmanSong of the Open RoadPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Elizabeth Edminson Thomas HoodSong of the ShirtPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hope you are well, and are finding some solace in your duties. You must find it hard to console aliens in England. They probably love England, and now they are ali...Ivor Bertie Gurney Thomas HardySong of the SoldiersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Thomas HardySong of the SoldiersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Mutual Love Our Mutual Flame, inspires our bliss/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge HuddersfordSong: Mutual LoveUnknown
1800-1849'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The...Mary Groom William WordsworthSong: she dwelt among th' untrodden waysUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson HeineSongsPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonSongs for inclusion in new edition of The PrincessManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Robert William ServiceSongs of a SourdoughPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William BlakeSongs of InnocencePrint: Book
1850-1899'Inclosed [sic] please find XXX to XXXV of Songs of Innocence ... If a man wishes to live forever and be happy, let him write Songs of Innocence: I cannot tell you how ha...Robert Louis Stevenson William BlakeSongs of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Unknown
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseySongs of ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'The man who gaind the last English verse prize in Oxford has since published two odes which he...Robert Southey George RichardsSongs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain Print: Book
1800-1849'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plague...John Cole EdmastonSonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Take a sonnet for the Ladies imitated from the Spanish of Bartolomè Leonardo, in which I have gi...Robert Southey Bartolomè Leonardo de ArgensolasonnetPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written by Mary Queen of Scots when in the vessel which conve...Catherine Austen Mary Queen of ScotsSonnetUnknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Catherine Talbot ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book


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