the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) : The Golden Treasury

'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undemined his confidence in the status quo: "I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'..

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt      Print: Book

Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) : Golden Treasury, The

'Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing about in the dug-outs. My own favourite practice was to lie in the sombre light of a candle reading the Golden Treasury, or else scribbling verses of my own composition.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) : Golden Treasury, The

'... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creations by candlelight as a solace to my distraught mind. And as the Palgrave's Treasury became more battered so it became more of a blessing.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

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