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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
 
1800-1849'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st Canto of Paradise lost by the side of the fire which ...Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonParadise Lost (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'M&S...Mary and Percy ShelleyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic]...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Milton on divorce'Mary Shelley John MiltonDoctrine and Discipline of Divorce, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its span in immensity, calculated him, by a sort of birth...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise Lost" possesses over every other poem - the Magnitud...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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