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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
 
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8 December, 1796: 'I have just read Carlyles Arabic Translations — Zounds what stuff is called Poetry!' Robert Southey Joseph Dacre CarlyleSpecimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Tim...Print: Book
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of Early English RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lambs Specimens'Mary Shelley Charles LambSpecimens of English Dramatic PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lambs specimens.'Mary Shelley Charles LambSpecimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived abou...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'Mary Shelley Charles LambSpecimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived abou...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of ta...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefator...Print: Book
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of the Early English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...what makes you think that I dislike your ‘Table-Talk’?...I might tell Derwent [Coleridge], that the book gave me no feeling of my father’s manner, which it does not...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'Mary Shelley [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the editorial conduct of the "English Review"'. Arnold Bennett SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1900-1945'I felt rather lonely and therefore went out and measured 1 and 12 [sites] (which we had had cleared in the morning) and afterwards drew them out till tea. Read the "Spec...Gertrude Bell SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I don't see the "Spectator" now — I found it so tiresome and stuffy that I abandoned it for the "New Statesman", which is neither. But I really think a paper writt...Gertrude Bell SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter, telegram
1850-1899'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re...Charles Darwin SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical


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