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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
 
1700-1799Mary Berry, Journal, Friday 9 April [Good Friday] 1784: 'In the evening [...] To the Academy of Arcadians, which was a great crowd of abbati in a room much too samll for ...Mary Berry unknownSonnets on the Passion of ChristUnknown
1900-1945'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'et...Ford Madox Ford Pierre de RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1900-1945'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised...Ralph Glasser Pierre RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you about those sonnets [...] The truth is that though th...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browningsonnets ['from the Portugese']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Lisle BowlesSonnets, and other poemsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 26 April, 1797: 'Some Mr T Park sent me a volume of his poems last week, with a note; its praises too gross for one who is no fowl-feede...Robert Southey Thomas ParkSonnets, and Other Small Poems Print: Book
1900-1945'... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wall...William Henry Hudson D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'. ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thouart [Thouars]; kept us, as the man did not mend it wh...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay ...Sophocles Sophoclis Tragodiae superstitesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's seven Ages of Man!'Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Joseph SorbiereSorberianaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that h...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" came out. I was so wholly unable to understand it t...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa p...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844: 'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accomplished it in 3 days, & pronounced it not only intel...Mrs Marston Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem...Charles I. Evans Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem...Miss Marriage Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1850-1899'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one likes the moon, I fancy'.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Unknown
1900-1945After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book


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