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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
 
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'dialect poems'Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any recollection of my own, that I had formed the idea that...Elizabeth Carter Desiderius Erasmus'Dialogues'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the Notes of Queen Mab.'Claire Clairmont C. F. D. Schubart'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Florence Reynolds Francis William Bain'Digit of the Moon'Print: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Georges Cuvier'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les osse...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "Dissertation on Virtue" which is subjoined to Butler...George Grote 'Dissertation on Virtue'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entries for 2, 3, and 9 January 1822, with 'Finish Ditm...Claire Clairmont unknown'Ditmar von Aarenstein'Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines 'Do not slay him who deserves alone/ A whipping for the fault that he has done. Creec... Creech'Do not slay him...'Unknown
1900-1945'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ...Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Don't Worry'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Dora'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.John Luther Hawkins Matthew Arnold'Dover Beach'Print: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...Celia Burrow William Butler Yeats'Down by the Salley Gardens'Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Henry Newbolt'Drake's Drum'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both devotional and 'gallant' books, and the heart's ability...Edward Morgan Forster Jean de la Bruyere'Du Coeur'Print: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Stefan George'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'Print: Book
1850-1899'Your "Dumas" I think exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'Dumas'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope'Dying Christian to his Soul, The'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besi...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington Macaulay'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Ea...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s Harper?s.'Arnold Bennett William Dean Howells'Easy Chair' columnPrint: Serial / periodical


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