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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson John Keats[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be...The world is too brutal for me." [Keats to Fanny B...Katherine Mansfield John KeatsLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion. [...] 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from stanza 10].' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsIsabella, or the Pot of BasilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' Claire Clairmont John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hyperion aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'Mary Shelley John KeatsLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas John Keats Print: Book
1900-1945'[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817) "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in unce...Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'.Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson John Keats[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Naples is one of the most terrifying things that I have ...Harold Nicolson John KeatsLettersPrint: 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 John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Book
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 John Keats Print: Book


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