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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
 
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1850-1899		Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (...John Ruskin Johann von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the print on a page in the middle of the book, at the point ...Richard Church Johann WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the sewing machine lay Jack's library book, a dirty brown object disguised in a uniform binding with gilt numbers on the back. I picked it up, opened it at the fi...Richard Church Johann WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Albert Heinrich ReimarusUeber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und d...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing Neander's Life of Christ, and I believe I have derived good from it. I did not clearly understand his reasoning on miracles ... but every now and the...Fanny Allen Johann August W. NeanderThe Life of Jesus Christ
1800-1849'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertio...George Crabbe Johann C. SpurzheimPhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Caspar SuicerusJoh. Caspari Suiceri...Thesaurus EcclesiasticusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christian HeinrothLehrbuch der AnthropologiePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate ...Edward Morgan Forster Johann Christian Friedrich HolderlinHyperionPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph AdelungDeutsche Sprachlehre fur SchulenPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed ... women gabbling below -- read a French translati...George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von SchillerunknownUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph WolfCurae philologicae et criticae, ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ..."' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Death of WallensteinUnknown
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'Have you read Cabal & Love? in spite of a translation for which the translator deserves hanging — the...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerCabal and LovePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Ghost SeerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerFiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy Print: Book


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