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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
 
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney John MiltonOde: On TimePrint: Book
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney Wilfrid Wilson GibsonFriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1800-1849‘... The ancient fables attributed to Aesop, Phaedrus, Pilpay, Avienus etc., are emblems or...allegories rather than Fables, most probably suggested by the Zoographic H...Hartley Coleridge AesopFablesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		‘... [William] Roscoe’s “Butterfly's Ball” and Mrs. [Sarah] Trimmer’s “Flapsy and Pecksey” (which I am glad to see so kindly mentioned in the Doctor [by Robert Southey]...Hartley Coleridge Sarah TrimmerFabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction o...Print: Book
1800-1849‘...But I cannot agree with Mitford that the pronunciation of the Modern Greeks is even a clue to that of the ancient occupants of the same country. ...’Hartley Coleridge William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I did not and do not, admire any of his [Robert Southey’s] laureate poetry - (except the epicedian on the Princess, which is beautiful) nor agree with all his Artic...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyFuneral Ode on the Death of the Princess CharlottePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...I shall give my own poetical translation, also, of the scenes which Schiller in his translation of Macbeth has substituted for the original witch-scenes. He has alt...Hartley Coleridge William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...I think I perceive in Wordsworth’s last volume [Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems], a decided inclination to the playful, the elegant and the beautiful; with an alm...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...in my Sophocles I fail’d, chiefly from being put on in a misprinted passage – for the play was one I had studied with more than common attention. In Virgil I stumbl...Hartley Coleridge HomerOdysseyPrint: written and oral examinations
1800-1849‘...it is very cruel in people whom I never injured to publish my father’s natural complaints of my delinquencies to the million whom they concern not - still worse to ...Hartley Coleridge Thomas AllsopLetters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...Other tales, in which beasts and birds compose the Dramatis Personae, are to be considered as burlesque satires, intended to make human actions and passions ridicul...Hartley Coleridge Catherine Ann Turner DorsetThe Peacock ‘at Home’: A sequel to the Butterfly's...Print: Book
1800-1849‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familia...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...the Quarterly [Review], under [John Gibson] Lockhart’s management, is very different from what it was under [William] Gifford, whose benevolence...certainly did not...Hartley Coleridge John Taylor Coleridge[articles in The Quarterly Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...what makes you think that I dislike your ‘Table-Talk’?...I might tell Derwent [Coleridge], that the book gave me no feeling of my father’s manner, which it does not...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945‘A cheap dinner and so to King’s Cross an hour early to get a Corner Seat … I read some Israel Zangwill as far as the Midlands. Then … slept. I woke up as we were rou...Wilfred Owen Israel ZangwillunspecifiedPrint: Book


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