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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheClavigo, a TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely bet...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEgmontPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1800-1849The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time, with which I find as many faults and beauties as ev...The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm MeisterPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHelenaPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returni...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Edel sei der Mensch'Manuscript: Unknown, Written by Prince Albert into Album belonging to Queen Victoria.
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Nachgefuhl'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Der Abschied'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'An den Mond'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry [...] Another poem, valued for its stately beauty ...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethepoem on seeing Schiller's skullPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented. Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of ...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Farbenlehre [The Theory (or Science) of Colour], which you are so good as to offer me, I have never seen, and shall thankfully accept, and study, it.'Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFarbenlehrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 September 1849:

'You are right about Goethe [...] he is clear, deep, but very cold. I acknowledge him g...		Charlotte Brontë Johann Wolfgang von GoetheunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together, as well as the second part of Faust.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Hermann und Dorothea'Sarah Good Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann und DorotheaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably]EgmontPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Lieden des jungen WerthersPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazzled my good man. He desires me to keep the letter fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WerterPrint: Book


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