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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plotinus PlotinusPlotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philo...Print: Book
We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Susan FerrierDestinyPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he...William and Dorothy WordsworthThomas De QuinceyletterManuscript: Letter
Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'. [Here the three somewhat insisted upon proving to...anon Garden of HeavenPrint: Book
Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthStar-GazersUnknown
Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Force of PrayerManuscript: Unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am goi...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesOswald, A Metrical TalePrint: Book
Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting with Charles Lamb when Wordsworth came in, with fume o...William Wordsworth Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: Serial / periodical
'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleInquisition upon Fame and Honour, AnPrint: Book
'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ..."' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Death of WallensteinUnknown
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beaut...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownPersian TaleManuscript: Unknown
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[ryd...George Gordon Lord Byron Sir Egerton BrydgesThe Ruminator: containing a series of moral, criti...Print: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very ...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Frances Wedderburn Websterletter with poemManuscript: Letter
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousThe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ...George Gordon Lord Byron George Frederick CookeMemoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the The...Print: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well wr...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wa...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book


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