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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‘I am back in the Trenches now and my address is altered as you notice. Thank you for Lawrence offer but cloth books are so bulky and impossible out here. I have sent...Isaac Rosenberg Westminster GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I am glad you sent that cutting from Wells’ Book. I hope you understood it. I did not. Not a word of it can I make sense of. I would rather we did not read this Book...Wilfred Owen Victor Hugol'Homme qui ritPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am going to send you "The Old Huntsman" as a festive gift … “The Death Bed” is the finest poem. I told [Sassoon] my opinion. It is his own. The poem is coming out ...Wilfred Owen Siegfried SassoonThe Old Huntsman and other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am in a condition such as demands amusement as a cure: that is, I am an invalid—though not a despondent one. I have been struggling with … bronchitis for more th...Herbert Edward Read George MeredithOne of Our ConquerorsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, si...Hartley Coleridge Sara ColeridgePretty Lessons in Verse for Good ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I am sorry for the delay which doubtless is owing to the confounded Politics that they stuff the Magazine with, to the great annoyance of Ladies and Liberals; and not ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I am sorry that the Athenaeum is no longer publish’d in such a shape that I can get it, for it is well worth two-pence. I can hardly say as much for the Carlisle Patri...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Carlisle PatriotPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still revelling in "The Dynasts". The amount of historical reading and travelling that must have gone to compose such a work must have been tremendous … the cha...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Asch...Hartley Coleridge Hartley ColeridgeBiographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Nor...Print: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read ‘Yarrow Revis[ited]’ - and some of the new Poems - very sweet, but can’t talk about them here, for I’ve more to say than ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I flatter myself the Volume [Hartley’s 1833 Poems] has sold tol lol. Dora [Wordsworth] finds great fault with its shape: a fault chargeable solely on my own bad taste ...Dora Wordsworth Hartley ColeridgePoems, Songs and SonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I go down today. Where to?—Nobody knows. May be in the Hosp. Train for days. Health: quite restored. Mood: highest variety of jinks. Weather: sub-tropical. Time: 1...Wilfred Owen Hilaire BellocA Pickled Company: Being a Selection from the Writ...Print: Book
1900-1945‘I had to thrust aside my “Cambridge Magazine” with Siegfried Sassoon’s splendid war on the war in it. ’ Edmund Blunden Siegfried SassoonTo Any Dead Officer (Who Left School for the Army ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’Hartley Coleridge Robert PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have an opportunity of seeing papers enough at Mr. Withington’s, the present occupant of Allan Bank, a most worthy Englishman and Tory of Falstaffian dimensions, who...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I have been in topsy turveydom since I last saw you and have not been able to write. Even now it is in the extremest difficulties that I’m writing this. I wanted to ...Isaac Rosenberg Edward MarshGeorgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1800-1849‘I have been reading Von Raumer’s England. He speaks highly of the Table talk and of my father, though some of the sentiments are at variance with his own.’Hartley Coleridge Friedrich von RaumerEngland in 1835: Being a Series of Letters Written...Print: Book
1800-1849‘I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of Pindar...I have not found the former very difficult, any further than as deep thinking and conceal’d c...Hartley Coleridge Pindar[unknown]Print: Book, university set text


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