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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying extracts into my "War Anthology" [...] I have put in...Edward Morgan Forster John Milton Unknown
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche: 'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if I would write to you and give you my remarks on wor...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849[Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836] 'My uncle Arthur says: "It was then I first saw yo...Emily Sellwood John MiltonComusPrint: 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 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 TennysonJohn Milton Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountably expressive of the description.'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and lines "Breathe forth Elixir pure"; "when with one virtuo...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apollonian. Satan first "throws round his baleful eyes", the...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson John MiltonTractate: Of Education Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Samuel Johnson John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Hannah More John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Hannah More John Milton[Sonnets]Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Dr Collier John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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