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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
 
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonPoems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, an...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonA Complete Collection of the Historical, Political...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'William Windham John Milton[poetry]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn MiltonParadise Lost, Book VIIIUnknown
1800-1849'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"'Bowly groupJohn MiltonSonnet OR When I consider how my light is spentUnknown
1800-1849'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen fo...Charles Lamb John Milton[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a misquotation of 'restraint she will not brook', Book IX...Benjamin Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in ...John Clare John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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 Milton[unknown works]Print: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson John Milton[poems complete works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of "Paradise lost"'Albert Battiscombe John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton -- and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boo...Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.Alexander (Rex) Ewing John MiltonParadise Lost [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.Harriet Wynne John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'Thomas Green John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book


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