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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to John Forster, 29 March 1854: 'I understand from Archibald Peel that you are aggrieved at my not writing to you [...] A reason for my not writing muc...Alfred Tennyson Persian grammarPrint: Book
1850-1899[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes...Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De VereCoventry PatmoreThe Angel in the HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Virgil Aeneid VIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Homer 'description of Hades'Print: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson WhewellPlurality of WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred and Emily TennysonDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1850-1899'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular national songs are religious and that, when the cholera ...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Souvestre'account of the Bretons'Print: Book
1850-1899'On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occured the phrase "some o...Alfred Tennyson account of Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."' Alfred Tennyson Theocritus HylasPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."' Alfred Tennyson Theocritus The Island of CosPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."' Alfred Tennyson Theocritus The Syracusan WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (sections)Manuscript: Unknown
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 Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: 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
1850-1899From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28th).'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonJohn Milton Print: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonWilliam ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonWilliam Makepeace ThackerayThe English Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonHenry Hallam'History'Print: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book


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