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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openings of great Poems, more particularly where the actio...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phrases and lines: 'round he throws his baleful eyes'; 'A...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?' and writes: 'Th...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'the glittering staff unfurl'd' to 'Of warriors old wit...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his form had not yet lost/ All her original brightness,...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'Anon out of the earth a fabric huge/ Rose like an exha...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the lines from 'Others, more mild, /Retreated in a sile...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whol...Virginia Woolf John Miltoncomplete worksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey John Milton ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impressions of Paradise Lost [...] Impressions fairly well...Virginia Woolf John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book


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