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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
 
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to send me the publication with the five brave sonnets [by...Henry James Rupert BrookesonnetsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthsonnetsUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and "C" familyPetrarch sonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of th...Claire Clairmont Petrarch sonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844: 'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I have glanced through a good many of the sonnets alread...Elizabeth Barrett Edward MoxonSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it falling to pieces, and read Shakespeare's sonnets.'Frank Smythe William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propos to the latter, Jingling James, his namesake, dined...James Montgomery Alfred TennysonsonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonWilliam ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns SonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:] 'The reading of Spenser's Sonnets was the first occasion of my writing that sp...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Ot...Ronald Storrs William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare ...Vero Walter Garratt William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Tennyson TurnerSonnets and Fugitive PiecesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles TennysonSonnets and Fugitive Pieces, by Charles TennysonPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets from the PortuguesePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery': '"Nor shall your presence, howsoe'er it mar The loveliness of Nature,...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthSonnets of the Imagination XLIIPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, 'Grosvenor I have a curiosity for you. two sonnets by James Jennings — seriously intended. upon Metaphor & ...Robert Southey James JenningsSonnets on Metaphor and PersonificationManuscript: Unknown


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